Benjamin distinguished his materialist historiography from Fuchs’s cultural history

Evidence

In `Eduard Fuchs, Collector and Historian’ (1937), Benjamin at last completed his long-delayed study of Fuchs, and took the opportunity to contrast his own conception of a historical-materialist historiography with the conception of cultural history which Fuchs had impressively represented, and which Benjamin criticized. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 216

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharply defines the difference between historical-materialist historiography and cultural history via Benjamin’s Fuchs essay.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno, Horkheimer, Bloch and Benjamin shared one historical-materialist program — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 209; Benjamin approached materialist history through studies of allegorical art — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 360
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno, Horkheimer, Bloch and Benjamin shared one historical-materialist program — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 209; Benjamin approached materialist history through studies of allegorical art — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 360