Horkheimer’s worldview drew on collective Jewish experience, not only Marxism

Evidence

In Materials, Horkheimer drew his own conclusions from this perception of the world as a power struggle, and these only partly corresponded to Marxist conclusions. It was a perception of the world suggested by the collective Jewish experience and by a sober assessment of the conditions associated with both his own and his father’s careers. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 440

Categorization

• XREF: Bears on the longstanding question of the Frankfurt School’s relation to Jewish identity, echoing the reader’s critical-theory thread — connects to: Horkheimer and Adorno saw Jews as embodying happiness free of purposive rationality — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1288; Horkheimer held that Jews’ apparent passivity masked rational insight into the futility of countermeasures — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1532; Horkheimer adopted Marxist theory slowly and kept it a private matter (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer held that Jews’ apparent passivity masked rational insight into the futility of countermeasures #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1532
• Horkheimer and Adorno saw Jews as embodying happiness free of purposive rationality #expands (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1288