Adorno’s and Habermas’s own students built the occupied critical university

Evidence

In Frankfurt, after the rector had responded to a student strike call by closing the university, the university’s main building was occupied on 27 May by 2000 students led by Frankfurt’s counterpart to Dutschke, Hans-Jürgen Krahl, who was a doctoral student of Adorno’s and well versed in theory. In place of its official name, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University', Frankfurt University was renamed Karl Marx University’. In the occupied university, the programme of a political university', developed shortly before, began to be turned into reality and presented as a model of what a critical university ought to be. Habermas's research assistantsNegt, Offe, Oevermann and Wellmertook part, giving seminars on History and Violence’, The Political Theory of the Extra-Parliamentary Opposition', The Non-Political University’ and `The Politicization of Science’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 660

Categorization

• XREF: Directly links the Frankfurt School’s seminar apparatus to the 1968 Extra-Parliamentary Opposition; Krahl was Adorno’s doctoral student, and Negt and Offe became major theorists in their own right.
• SEED: Angle: how the Frankfurt School’s own doctoral students turned its critique against it, inventing the ‘political university’ as an institutional form.