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Horkheimer and Adorno claimed their dialectic critique held regardless of Nazism's existence

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aliases@wiggershaus_frankfurt_1994, loc. 1441

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Horkheimer and Adorno claimed their dialectic critique held regardless of Nazism’s existence

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But the validity of the part of their `work in progress’ which Horkheimer and Adorno had so far produced did not, in their eyes, depend in the slightest on the actual existence of National Socialism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1441

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  • QUESTION: Worth chasing: how did this universalist claim about reason’s self-destruction square with the Institute’s empirical, concrete research commitments?
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