Frankfurter and the US academic left shaped Neumann’s divergence from Horkheimer’s circle

Evidence

Laski introduced him to friends at various distinguished universities during a tour which they made. Among these friends was Felix Frankfurter, Professor at the Harvard Law School, who was a member of Roosevelt’s Brains Trust and was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1939. Neumann’s first impressions, which, looking back on the experience in 1952, he described as being decisive for him, indicated a point of view which was very distant from that of the Horkheimer circle. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 938

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Horkheimer-Neumann split pitted philosophy-of-history against reformist Marxism; Neumann’s trade-union and SPD background clashed with Horkheimer’s homogeneous circle ideal. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 920; Neumann diverged from Critical Theory in method, not conclusions — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 470 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Neumann diverged from Critical Theory in method, not conclusions #expands (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 470