Kracauer dated the loss of cosmic meaning in the West to Catholicism’s demise

Evidence

When meaning is lost (in the West, since the demise of Catholicism), when clearly formed faith is perceived more and more as a constricting dogma, as an aggravating fetter on reason, the cosmos which was held together by meaning falls apart, and the world divides itself into the multiplicity of existing things and the subject which confronts this multiplicity. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 269

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 269
• XREF: connects to: Kracauer tied lost cosmic meaning to a subject confronting stripped matter. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 269; Kracauer held that after meaning’s collapse, subjects form matter using rescued ideas — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 270; Kracauer held that a pervasive divine meaning once unified all things

Broader Connections

• Kracauer tied lost cosmic meaning to a subject confronting stripped matter. #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 269
• Kracauer held that after meaning’s collapse, subjects form matter using rescued ideas #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 270