Marcuse and Neumann preserved Critical Theory’s political project that Horkheimer and Adorno abandoned

Evidence

For Marcuse and Neumann, Critical Theory would be developed as a theory of social change that would connect philosophy, social theory, and radical politics—precisely the project of 1930s Critical Theory that Horkheimer and Adorno were abandoning in the early 1940s in their turn toward philosophical and cultural criticism divorced from social theory and radical politics. Marcuse and Neumann, by contrast, were focusing precisely on the issue that Horkheimer and Adorno had neglected: the theory of social change. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 31

Categorization

• XREF: Positions Marcuse against the Dialectic of Enlightenment’s cultural turn — useful context for why One-Dimensional Man is more politically actionable than Adorno’s cultural pessimism. — connects to: Vienna Circle positivism out-competed Critical Theory in America due to philosophical congruence. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 243; Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization revived the revolutionary Freud Horkheimer and Adorno had rejected. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 364; Behemoth was Institute recognition denied because its methodology strayed from Critical Theory — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 505 (+6 more)