Kracauer rejected Weber’s principled scepticism for an open-minded waiting.

Evidence

The attitude that impressed Kracauer most was that of the sceptic on principle, the intellectual desperado, of which Max Weber was the most striking example. But Kracauer himself pleaded for a form of scepticism which would not degenerate into scepticism as a principle, but which was linked to a hesitatingly open-minded waiting. Those who wait do not make a virtue of necessity'as the desperado doesby denying what they long for, nor do they entrust themselves rashly to streams of yearning which might carry them away to who knows what sort of false fulfilments.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 273

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Kracauer’s distinctive stance — ‘Those Who Wait’ — against Weber’s desperado scepticism.
• XREF: connects to: Kracauer’s position of ‘Those Who Wait’ rejected both dogma and principled scepticism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 273; Weber’s neo-Kantianism barred him from hoping to restore substantive reason — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 783

Broader Connections

• Weber’s neo-Kantianism barred him from hoping to restore substantive reason #expands (0.82) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 783