Attempted revivals of a lost past accelerate the decay of what survives of it.
Evidence
It was precisely the demand for such a revival that Horkheimer criticized in the neo-Thomists as being not merely hopeless but even damaging, since such attempted revivals only accelerated the decay of what had actually survived of the good old days. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 369
Categorization
- XREF: Resonates with the standing note on nostalgia/restoration failure; also connects to the reader’s interest in institutions that cannot simply be rebuilt. — connects to: Imitating Europe generates both loss and the drive to transcend the imitation.; Rough beginnings of a new era surpass an old era’s refined end — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1232; Attempted revivals of past traditions accelerate their decay — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1454 (+6 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Imitating Europe generates both loss and the drive to transcend the imitation.; Rough beginnings of a new era surpass an old era’s refined end — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1232; Attempted revivals of past traditions accelerate their decay — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1454 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Attempted revivals of past traditions accelerate their decay
#corroborates(1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1454 - Defeated cultural movements can be re-potentiated from their archives after decades
#complicates(0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1369 - Return to archaic form can itself be a rendering of future shock
#complicates(0.72) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 300 - The task of historical fiction is bringing past archives into living bodies.
#complicates(0.71) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 860