Marcuse could oppose Horkheimer’s conceptions yet still revere the work
Evidence
I know that, unfortunately, all
rational' argumentation speaks for my accepting the position in Washington. But it seems to me that you somewhat underrate my desire to continue the theoretical work we have been doing . . . In spite of my opposition to some of your conceptions, I have never and nowhere concealed my conviction that I know of no intellectual efforts today which are closer to the truth, and of no other place where one is still allowed and encouraged to think. It might be good to say this at this moment, and to tell you that I shall not forget what I learned with you . . . Only if you say that, on account of the Institute's financial situation, this relationship will anyway come to an end within a very short time, and that my position in Washington would make it possible to continue our common work after a relatively short interruptiononly then would the rational argumentation harmonize with my ratherirrational’ desire to continue our theoretical studies. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1250
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Horkheimer steered Marcuse from Heideggerian phenomenology toward critical Marxism — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 283; Cold War pressures drove Horkheimer and Adorno apart from Marcuse’s leftism — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 864; Horkheimer approved Adorno’s thesis despite deeming it radically alien to his own philosophy — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 377
Broader Connections
- Horkheimer approved Adorno’s thesis despite deeming it radically alien to his own philosophy
#epitomizes(0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 377 - Horkheimer steered Marcuse from Heideggerian phenomenology toward critical Marxism
#expands(0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 283 - Cold War pressures drove Horkheimer and Adorno apart from Marcuse’s leftism
#qualifies(0.72) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 864