Horkheimer’s first extended article attacked Mannheim’s Ideology and Utopia

Evidence

Horkheimer responded coolly that, although there was much intellectual power behind this dreary sequence of sentences full of words heavy with significance', the work's position with regard to history itself, as it is, is not much different from that of a Jaspers or some other professor’. The peculiar irony of Marx's categories was nowhere at work'; Sohn-Rethel had succeeded in denuding the concept of exploitation of any aggressive content’ in a way that not even Mannheim had achieved. What the author had done, with discoveries which were in no way new ones, was to gloss over them idealistically, instead of bringing them into focus'. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 654</cite> (#complicates`, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer rejected Sohn-Rethel’s work as abstract where Mannheim at least engaged history — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 654

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer rejected Sohn-Rethel’s work as abstract where Mannheim at least engaged history #complicates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 654