Horkheimer pressed the group toward a total theory of contemporary society.

Evidence

For some time, Horkheimer formed what might be called the group’s social and theoretical conscience, constantly urging that the common task was to produce a theory of society as a whole, a theory of the contemporary era, whose subject would be human beings as producers of their own historical forms of lifeforms of life which had, however, become alienated from them. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 19

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer theorized totalitarian monopoly capitalism as a racket phase of society — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1306; Horkheimer conceived the Institute as a homogeneous group defined by shared attitudes — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 435; Horkheimer’s unity-of-social-sciences program revived Gerlach’s original founding vision. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 156

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer conceived the Institute as a homogeneous group defined by shared attitudes #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 435
• Horkheimer theorized totalitarian monopoly capitalism as a racket phase of society #complicates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1306