Lukács framed Nietzsche as founder of imperialist-era irrationalism

Evidence

Among other things, this work portrays Nietzsche as the ‘founder of irrationalism in the imperialist period’: as Lukács argues, ‘[w]hat determined Nietzsche’s particular position in the development of modern irrationalism, was partly the historical situation at the time of his appearance’ - something doubtless true of every theoretical posi- complainsabout’Wiesengrund-Adorno’havingundertaken’tosmearme’. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 137

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• XREF: connects to: Marx, Nietzsche, and Saint-Simon founded modernity’s three thinking schools — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 261; Lukács and Heidegger were Marcuse’s two greatest influences — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 387; Horkheimer credited de Sade and Nietzsche with speaking truth about bourgeois culture — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1461