German postwar sociologists accused each other of totalitarian tendencies

Evidence

Their differences in views' involved nothing less than mutual accusations of having totalitarian tendencies. Even before the Tübingen workshop, this had once again become clear at the Fourteenth German Sociology Conference in Berlin in 1959. In consecutive papers, Horkheimer had spoken on Sociology and Philosophy’ and König on Changes in the Position of the Sociological Intelligentsia'. Horkheimer had emphasized that, if sociology failed to concern itself with the fate of the whole, if it failed to fulfil its task of allowing society to reflect on itself’ in the light of its purposethe correct form of human co-existence'then it would fail in the struggle against the totalitarian world, which threatens the European world both from without and from within’. König was bound to see this as a reference to himself, since he rejected precisely what Horkheimer was demanding, on the grounds that it was no longer appropriate to a pure', specialist sociology. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2403</cite> (#corroborates`, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Frankfurt theorists and pure sociologists accused each other of totalitarian tendencies. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2403; Five of eight postwar German sociology chairs went to Nazi-era careerists — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1914; Three divergent postwar media systems grew from the Nazi propaganda example — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 426

Related

• Frankfurt theorists and pure sociologists accused each other of totalitarian tendencies. (similarity 0.95)
• Five of eight postwar German sociology chairs went to Nazi-era careerists (similarity 0.84)
• Frankfurt theorists fought Nazi-linked sociologists through academic politics, not public critique (similarity 0.81)
• Only three of eight postwar West German sociology chairs went to anti-fascists (similarity 0.80)
• Postwar German philosophy remained apolitical and untouched by Nazi history (similarity 0.80)
• Frankfurt’s intellectual left of the early 1930s formed a substantial, cooperating bloc (similarity 0.79)
• Postwar German social science had fallen behind other industrial nations (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Frankfurt theorists and pure sociologists accused each other of totalitarian tendencies. #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2403