Horkheimer presented his fascism lessons at a 1940s UNESCO sociologists’ conference
Evidence
In Paris, Horkheimer took part in a two-week UNESCO conference of eight sociologists (including Gordon Allport, Georges Gurvitch and Harry Sullivan) on
Tensions Affecting International Understanding'. His contribution, a paper onThe Lessons of Fascism’, contained passages expressed with the laconic bitterness of his German writings of the 1920s and 1930s. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 424
Categorization
- SHARE: A hyper-specific conference lineup (Allport, Gurvitch, Sullivan at UNESCO) that only someone tracking mid-century social-science networks would savor.
- XREF: connects to: Horkheimer sought applied topics that could present his theory as expert social knowledge — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1338; Horkheimer called for a sociology of terror tracing how institutions strip individuals of rights — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1681
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer sought applied topics that could present his theory as expert social knowledge — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1338; Horkheimer called for a sociology of terror tracing how institutions strip individuals of rights — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1681