Conservative critics grasped the dialectic of enlightenment as sharply as the Frankfurt School

Evidence

Schelsky’s counter-Enlightenment position gave him, like Freyer and Gehlen, a shrewd approach to the dialectic of enlightenment. What Marcuse later attacked as repressive desublimation was exposed no less acutely by Schelsky in his Sociology of Sexuality. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2463

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Marcuse’s repressive desublimation in One-Dimensional Man; shows the diagnosis was shared across the political spectrum, complicating a clean left/right reading of Frankfurt critical theory.
• QUESTION: Chase: Schelsky’s version of the dialectic-of-enlightenment critique — how did a conservative diagnosis of sexual commodification differ in political conclusions from Marcuse’s?