Critical Theory had to reassert itself against many intervening philosophical competitors who displaced Hegel

Evidence

Whereas the Left Hegelians were the immediate successors of the classical German idealists, the Frankfurt School was separated from Kant and Hegel by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Dilthey, Bergson, Weber, Husserl, and many others, not to mention the systematization of Marxism itself. As a result, Critical Theory had to reassert itself against a score of competitors who had driven Hegel from the field. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 190

Categorization

• XREF: Orients why Adorno’s Negative Dialectics and Horkheimer fought against positivism and Lebensphilosophie rather than against fellow Hegelians. — connects to: Critical Theory’s meaning shifted as different practitioners redefined it — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 7

Broader Connections

• Critical Theory’s meaning shifted as different practitioners redefined it #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 7