Marx, Nietzsche, and Saint-Simon founded modernity’s three thinking schools

Evidence

Marx, Nietzsche, and Saint-Simon may plausibly be regarded as the founders of the three most influential ways of thinking about modernity. All three take the Enlightenment as their starting-point, all three have a distinctive conception of the modern epoch inaugurated by the dual industrial and political revolutions at the end of the eighteenth century. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 261

Categorization

• XREF: Three influences on modernity — connects to the author’s earlier handling of Weber and to Jameson’s periodization assumptions. — connects to: Adorno traces Marx’s productive-forces metaphysics back to Saint-Simon — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1577; Nietzsche is the source of the principal theses of postmodern theory — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 268; Both poststructuralist strands derive their core from Nietzsche (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 261

Broader Connections

• Adorno traces Marx’s productive-forces metaphysics back to Saint-Simon #expands (0.85) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1577
• Nietzsche is the source of the principal theses of postmodern theory #expands (0.80) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 268
• Both poststructuralist strands derive their core from Nietzsche #exemplifies (0.78)
• Lukács framed Nietzsche as founder of imperialist-era irrationalism #complicates (0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 137