Horkheimer and Adorno converted Buber’s religious encounter into materialist mimesis.

Evidence

It was only the proximity to nature produced from a distance by means of consciousness which was able to realize, in a transcended form, the lost happiness imagined in retrospectthat is, authentically mimetic behaviour', organic adaptation to others’. `You encounter me, when you encounter me’: this insight from the philosophy of religion, pointedly expressed by Martin Buber, was turned by Horkheimer and Adorno into a materialist and anthropological one. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1439

Categorization

• XREF: A direct transposition of Buber’s I-Thou religious philosophy into the Frankfurt materialist frame — a crossover the reader can trace. — connects to: Horkheimer and Adorno reworked Buber’s religious insight into a materialist concept of mimesis — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1439

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer and Adorno reworked Buber’s religious insight into a materialist concept of mimesis #corroborates (0.98) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1439