Nazism’s victory rendered pre-1933 German intellectual vocabulary suddenly obsolete

Evidence

This book is obsolete. The thoughts it contains are occasional jottings made in Germany between 1926 and 1931… Again and again, they refer critically to the concepts metaphysics', character’, morality', personality’, and `human value’, in the way that these were valid at this period of capitalism. Since they belong to the period before the final victory of Nazism, they refer to a world which is today already out of date. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 146

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s running theme that Critical Theory was constituted by the Nazi rupture. — connects to: Nazism’s victory rendered Horkheimer’s pre-1933 jottings obsolete — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 511
• SEED: An essay on how a political rupture can retroactively void the vocabulary of an entire philosophical milieu.

Broader Connections

• Nazism’s victory rendered Horkheimer’s pre-1933 jottings obsolete #expands (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 511