Adorno’s arrival displaced Fromm and changed the Frankfurt School’s intellectual tone

Evidence

From his writings alone it seems evident that Fromm’s sensibility was less ironic than that of the other members of the inner circle, his approach to life less colored by the aesthetic nuances shared by both Horkheimer and Adorno. Adorno’s full entry into Institut affairs at about the time Fromm was leaving signified a crucial shift in the tone of the Frankfurt School’s work. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 353

Categorization

• XREF: The Fromm-Adorno contrast over irony and aesthetic sensibility foreshadows the split between revisionist psychoanalysis and the later critical theory of the Dialectic of Enlightenment period. — connects to: Fromm was the only Frankfurt psychoanalyst who followed the Institut to America — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 319; Horkheimer suppressed Fromm’s worker study as both too Marxist and not Marxist enough — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 195; The Frankfurt School’s institutional forms shifted across three distinct eras and three geographic sites — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 21 (+3 more)