Adorno paradoxically hoped more for post-Hitler Germany than for the USA

Evidence

On the other hand, however, it was the standardization and artificial conservation of European culture that Adorno was warning against. Being able to overturn a form of alienation which had been taken to its limits depended on there still being a remnant not yet encompassed by it; this philosophical motif was decisive for Adorno here as well. Adorno saw more hope of improvement in the post-Hitler period in the country which had experienced the worst form of fascism than he did in the USA. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1645

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno felt Europe’s survival amid postwar ruin kindled hope in humane persistence — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1730; Adorno judged postwar European intellectual culture inferior to America’s for critical analysis. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1742; European intellectuals saw postwar Germany as preferable to America for intellectual life (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno felt Europe’s survival amid postwar ruin kindled hope in humane persistence #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1730
• Adorno judged postwar European intellectual culture inferior to America’s for critical analysis. #contradicts (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1742