Adorno advised Marcuse to conceal his foundation rather than assert it openly.

Evidence

With Eros and Civilization, Marcuse had been trying to fill a gap. The criticisms Adorno made, without getting himself involved in any discussion of the position Marcuse had taken, ultimately amounted to advising him to proceed in the same way as Adorno and Horkheimer themselves: to maintain his cover and not present the central focus of his thought as a tangible, certain foundation. Adorno’s criticisms were incomprehensible to Marcuse. Marcuse had always defended with Aristotelian vehemence what Horkheimer and Adorno had in one form or another expressed with restraint and as indirectly as possible. He had always seen what was true and correct as having a fundamental existential quality. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 534

Categorization

• XREF: Cross-links to the Marcuse chapter of the Frankfurt School history and to Eros and Civilization as the ‘gap-filling’ text. — connects to: Adorno urged Marcuse to keep his theory’s foundation hidden — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2169
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno urged Marcuse to keep his theory’s foundation hidden — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2169

Broader Connections

• Adorno urged Marcuse to keep his theory’s foundation hidden #corroborates (0.97) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2169