Benjamin and Adorno monopolized the Institute’s aesthetic criticism after 1937.

Evidence

Although the positions in the criticism of ideology taken up by Marcuse and Lowenthal appealed to Horkheimer very muchthe essays were written, after all, while the authors were in close contact with himno more articles by either of them on the topic of art or materialist aesthetics appeared in the ZfS. The subject became the monopoly of Benjamin and Adorno. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 914

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why did Marcuse and Lowenthal stop publishing on art despite Horkheimer’s approval? Personality, philosophical divergence, or strategic division of labor?
• XREF: connects to: Adorno and Benjamin’s aesthetic-modernist reading displaced the bourgeois-culture reading at the Institute. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 916

Broader Connections

• Adorno and Benjamin’s aesthetic-modernist reading displaced the bourgeois-culture reading at the Institute. #corroborates (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 916