Adorno adapted Fromm’s rebel-revolutionary split into a pseudo-conservative versus conservative split
Evidence
The category of rebelliousness, which belonged to the tradition of Institute studies, reappeared in Adorno’s ideas in connection with the F-scale. Just as Fromm had distinguished in Studies on Authority and the Family between the rebel and the revolutionary, i.e. between the pseudo-revolutionary and the genuine revolutionary, so Adorno was distinguishing between the pseudo-conservative and the genuine conservative. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1588
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies that ‘pseudo-conservative’ is Adorno’s term for the destructive unconscious impulse rationalized as conventionality, parallel to Fromm’s ‘pseudo-revolutionary.’
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1588
- XREF: connects to: Adorno’s pseudo-conservative distinction added psychological depth to the political concept of conservatism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1587; Adorno’s pseudo-conservatism label masked a European left critique of American civilization — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1806; Adorno’s typology of the prejudice-free lacked a pseudo-leftist category — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1825 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Adorno’s pseudo-conservatism label masked a European left critique of American civilization
#expands(0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1806 - Adorno’s typology of the prejudice-free lacked a pseudo-leftist category
#qualifies(0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1825 - Adorno’s arrival displaced Fromm and changed the Frankfurt School’s intellectual tone
#responds-to(0.72) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 353