Attempted revivals of past traditions accelerate their decay

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, 1454

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies Horkheimer’s dialectical stance: nostalgia for restoration is counterproductive, not merely futile.
• XREF: connects to: History is the ceaseless dissolution of reified social forms for Lukács — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 320; Grünberg’s optimists saw a higher culture emerging from decaying forms. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 90; Modernist and postmodern religious revivals are not genuine returns to tradition. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 830 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Modernist and postmodern religious revivals are not genuine returns to tradition. #corroborates (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 830
• Civilizational decay is reversible through intentional renewal #contradicts (0.78) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 836
• Even fabricated religious traditions reflect a culture’s healthy adaptive vitality #complicates (0.75)
• The modernist classics became reified monuments that paralyzed fresh form production. #exemplifies (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 691
• Religious revival overrides indigenization where modernization demands mount #expands (0.72)
• Pre-modern tribute systems weakened themselves the more they expanded #qualifies (0.72) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 20
• Genuine folk culture was colonized and extinguished by commodification from the midnineteenth century #exemplifies (0.70) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 192
• Outdated institutional partitions persist by tradition long after their logic expires #exemplifies (0.70) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1992