Kracauer held that after meaning’s collapse, subjects form matter using rescued ideas

Evidence

The subject must process and form this matter in accordance with the ideas it possesses within itself (and which it has rescued from the epoch of meaning). — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 270

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 270
• XREF: connects to: Kracauer dated the loss of cosmic meaning in the West to Catholicism’s demise — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 269; Kracauer tied lost cosmic meaning to a subject confronting stripped matter. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 269

Broader Connections

• Kracauer tied lost cosmic meaning to a subject confronting stripped matter. #corroborates (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 269