Adorno’s Frankfurt School writings were consumed privately by young intellectuals in the 1950s

Evidence

By the middle of the 1950s I can hardly ever put down Adorno’s Minima Moralia for very long, and then his writings on the sociology of musicthe `Frankfurt School’ becomes the experience of my whole education. But, like my interest in psychoanalysis, this remains more or less a private matter. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2175

Categorization

• QUESTION: How did the quasi-private, Bildungs-level consumption of Minima Moralia among young intellectuals in the 1950s seed the public impact of the student movement a decade later?
• XREF: connects to: Postwar New Leftists rediscovered the Frankfurt School through pirated and reissued pre-1950 writings — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 76

Broader Connections

• Postwar New Leftists rediscovered the Frankfurt School through pirated and reissued pre-1950 writings #corroborates (0.92) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 76