Adorno privately backed the student movement but concealed it publicly

Evidence

Two days later he met with members of the SDS for a private discussion. He had made it a condition of the meeting that it should not be recorded on tape. What he said during the meeting would have made him a celebrated mentor of the protest movement if it had been stated in public; he was already one of its uncelebrated mentors. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 655

Categorization

• SHARE: The detail that Adorno insisted the SDS meeting not be taped so he could speak freely is precisely the niche anecdote one sends to a Critical Theory friend.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno’s method-over-practice emphasis explains his students’ charge of political quietism — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 123; Adorno’s belief in self-determination left freedom something to be given, not seized — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2490; 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’s method-over-practice emphasis explains his students’ charge of political quietism — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 123; Adorno’s belief in self-determination left freedom something to be given, not seized — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2490; Adorno urged Marcuse to keep his theory’s foundation hidden — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2169

Broader Connections

• Adorno’s belief in self-determination left freedom something to be given, not seized #complicates (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2490