Kracauer took the profane seriously only because that was the route to the absolute

Evidence

It was only clear that Kracauer saw a reluctance to leap ahead, an inclination to take seriously what was here and now, profane and superficial, as being the precondition for the `invasion by the absolute’, the experience of true reality. Right into the 1920s, Kracauer accused the socialist movement of not being able to add religious commitment to economic commitment. It was only in the mid-1920s that he began to see Marxist theory as the current location of truthto the extent that it stood for the conviction that making the material and the profane into what was fundamental could only be avoided if the material and profane were, to begin with, seriously taken to be fundamental. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 89

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School proto-history captured in the earlier chapter on the Institute’s intellectual formation. — connects to: Kracauer embraced Marxism only when it took the profane seriously
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Kracauer embraced Marxism only when it took the profane seriously

Broader Connections

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