Frankfurt theorists believed skipping specialized disciplines produced better insights than disciplinary work

Evidence

It was a central factor in giving Horkheimer and the most important of his fellow theoreticians the sense that important insights could also be achievedor even better achievedby skipping over the specialized disciplines. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 206

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Psychoanalysis’s undisciplined status made the Frankfurt circle’s contempt for specialized science easier — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 206; Psychoanalysis justified the Frankfurt circle’s contempt for specialized academic disciplines
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Psychoanalysis’s undisciplined status made the Frankfurt circle’s contempt for specialized science easier — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 206; Psychoanalysis justified the Frankfurt circle’s contempt for specialized academic disciplines