Barbarism-as-vitality ran through Schoenberg, Mann, Bloch, and Benjamin alike

Evidence

There were echoes in this idea of, for example, Schoenberg’s conception of the artist as a connoisseur of tradition following his own instincts; or of Thomas Mann’s conception of art as being the outcome of a union between barbarism and intellectualism; and also of Bloch’s and Benjamin’s demand that the energies of barbarism and intoxication should be put at the service of the `revolution’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 329

Categorization

• XREF: Fits with the reader’s running set of Frankfurt School intellectual-network connections: Mann’s Doktor Faustus, Benjamin’s allegory, Bloch’s utopian surplus. — connects to: Barbarism is what lets mind master itself and stay open to nature — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 329
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Barbarism is what lets mind master itself and stay open to nature — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 329