Horkheimer and Adorno’s collaboration required assimilating their differing materialisms.

Evidence

Horkheimer’s and Adorno’s endeavours coalesced in the critique of idealist positions, and in their common interest in an unfinished' (Horkheimer) or intermittent’ (Adorno) dialectics, a logic of living matters not prescribed either by a system or by some autonomous spirit. But close collaboration seemed hard to imagine unless further assimilation between their two positions took place. The direction in which this assimilation would move was anticipated, even before Horkheimer agreed with Adorno’s praise of Benjamin, in the reaction by the materialist social theorist (Horkheimer) to the essay on jazz by the interpretative materialist (Adorno). — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 662

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer and Adorno’s collaboration fused two distinct materialist methodologies — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 662; Horkheimer and Adorno each deployed Hegelian dialectics toward different ends — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 767

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer and Adorno’s collaboration fused two distinct materialist methodologies #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 662
• Horkheimer and Adorno each deployed Hegelian dialectics toward different ends #complicates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 767