Adorno’s reference to Hofstätter’s fascist past was a rare 1950s public break with silence.

Evidence

Adorno’s allusion to Hofstätter’s pro-fascist past, in his reply to the latter’s criticism of Group Experimentcriticism in which Hofstätter had supported the idea of repressionwas a rare example during the 1950s of an open reference to something that was being universally repressed. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 571

Categorization

• XREF: Ties Hofstätter’s critique of the Group Experiment to the earlier treatment of Adorno’s group-discussion method and its critics. — connects to: Horkheimer and Adorno publicly stayed silent about colleagues’ fascist pasts. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 571
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer and Adorno publicly stayed silent about colleagues’ fascist pasts. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 571

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer and Adorno publicly stayed silent about colleagues’ fascist pasts. #complicates (0.87) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 571