Adorno read postwar German intellectual enthusiasm as substitute gratification

Evidence

Expressing himself more vehemently than in his article `A Resurrection of Culture in Germany?’, published in May 1950 in the Frankfurter Hefte, Adorno told Horkheimer that the students’ intellectual passion, which was so attractive, also had a certain quality of substitute gratification, of Talmud school. The seductive intellectual climate disguised the fact that people were responding more to the novelty Horkheimer and Adorno were offering than to the real intentions lying behind it. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 430

Categorization

• QUESTION: Did this suspicion of student reception anticipate or sour the later 1968 rupture between the Institute and student radicals?
• XREF: connects to: Adorno located more hope for overcoming alienation in post-Hitler Germany than in America. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 409; Adorno felt Europe’s survival amid postwar ruin kindled hope in humane persistence — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1730; European intellectuals saw postwar Germany as preferable to America for intellectual life (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno located more hope for overcoming alienation in post-Hitler Germany than in America. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 409; Adorno felt Europe’s survival amid postwar ruin kindled hope in humane persistence — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1730; European intellectuals saw postwar Germany as preferable to America for intellectual life (+1 more)