Kracauer held that a pervasive divine meaning once unified all things

Evidence

In an epoch pervaded with meaning, everything is referred to the divine meaning, in which there is neither empty space nor empty time in the way that these are conceived of by science. Rather, space and time form an indispensable envelope around all matters which stand in some definite relationship to meaning … The I, the You, all objects and events receive their significance from this divine meaning and arrange themselves within a cosmos of structures … the very stones are evidence for the divine being. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 268 (#expands, via linked claim)

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 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Kracauer held that a sacred cosmos gave all things their significance. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 268; Kracauer held that meaning-filled epochs embed all objects in a divine cosmos; Kracauer dated the loss of cosmic meaning in the West to Catholicism’s demise — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 269

Broader Connections

• Kracauer held that a sacred cosmos gave all things their significance. #expands (0.96) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 268
• Kracauer held that meaning-filled epochs embed all objects in a divine cosmos #corroborates (0.95)
• Kracauer dated the loss of cosmic meaning in the West to Catholicism’s demise #qualifies (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 269