Horkheimer dismissed Marcuse’s fame as resting on cruder ideas

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Marcuse was still alive, and Horkheimer’s remark that Marcuse’s fame was based on ideas `that are coarser and simpler than those of Adorno and myself’ containedin addition to a nasty dig at someone who had once been loyal to him and who was no longer satisfied with mere complaints about the administered worlda recognition that there was considerable intellectual common ground between them. But Marcuse was not the focus of an institutionally based school of thought. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2748

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