Horkheimer’s anti-bourgeois critique was itself infected by bourgeois values

Evidence

The `interior’ was engaged in struggle with the bourgeois world, but was itself infected by that world from the very start. Anti-bourgeois expressionist pathos, as Horkheimer’s autobiographical and self-critical texts of the 1930s confirm, remained the seedbed of his critique of society. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 438

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks to the reflexive double-bind at the heart of critical theory — the same structure as Adorno’s own claim that theory is never fully free of the society it criticizes. — connects to: Horkheimer privately despised his era yet publicly promoted bourgeois traditions — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2112; Horkheimer’s social critique grew from anti-bourgeois pathos and Jewish experience — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 126

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer privately despised his era yet publicly promoted bourgeois traditions #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2112