Horkheimer defended his teaching by invoking Cornelius, Kant, and Hegel

Evidence

Following newspaper reports of his `temporary suspension’, Horkheimer sent a letter, three closely written pages long, to the Minister for Science, Art and People’s Education in Berlin on 21 April. In the letter, written in the style of a dignified, liberal citizen, he concisely and pointedly gave reasons for the significance of Cornelius, Kant and Hegel in his teaching activities. He admitted in particular having taken into account the economic view of history, among other more recent social theories. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 528

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno’s dissertation rejected Husserl’s idealism for Cornelius’s immanent philosophy — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 276; Frankfurt University’s first philosophy chair was held alone by Cornelius for fifteen years — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 175; Horkheimer’s main mentor Hans Cornelius shaped him personally more than theoretically — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 194 (+1 more)