Post-war Switzerland struck Horkheimer as livable frugally yet haunted by recent horrors

Evidence

Horkheimer wrote to the Adornos from Zurich in May that he had so far seen two countries, France and Switzerland. `One can still imagine living in poverty here without having to rot away. Although nothing that happened here has passed without leaving its traces, and although the threat of fresh horrors is always present, our ideas about humaneness being able to etch itself into objectivity are surpassed by what we are immediately experiencing.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1707

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• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer found postwar Switzerland and France places where poverty could be lived with dignity; Postwar Europe let Horkheimer imagine dignified poverty amid ever-present horror. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 422