Adorno’s authorship of Dialectic of Enlightenment made his Frankfurt appointment harder
Evidence
In the spring of 1950, when it was still not clear who would be Gadamer’s successor in the one chair of philosophy at Frankfurt University, apart from Horkheimer’s chair of social philosophy, and when the most serious candidate, Karl Löwith, had decided to go to Heidelberg instead, Horkheimer had, he wrote to Marcuse,
naturally . . . pressed strongly for you yourself to be appointed to Gadamer's chair'. The difficulties of installing Adorno in the chair were greater, since he was too closely identified with Horkheimer as co-author of Dialectic of Enlightenment.Probably,’ Horkheimer continued, `neither is possible, and we will get a second-class or third-class existentialist’a reference to supporters of Heidegger. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 486
Categorization
- DEFINE: ‘Second-class or third-class existentialist’ is Horkheimer’s dismissal of any Heidegger-aligned hire.
- XREF: connects to: Adorno’s co-authorship of Dialectic of Enlightenment hurt his chances for a Frankfurt philosophy chair — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1977
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno’s co-authorship of Dialectic of Enlightenment hurt his chances for a Frankfurt philosophy chair — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1977
Broader Connections
- Adorno’s co-authorship of Dialectic of Enlightenment hurt his chances for a Frankfurt philosophy chair
#expands(0.96) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1977