Postwar Frankfurt teaching shifted from critical theory to conventional philosophy and methods

Evidence

After a lecture course on Theory and Criticism of Society since Saint-Simon' in the summer of 1950, Horkheimer only gave philosophical lectureson The Problems of Modern Philosophy’, `Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century’, and so onand, from the summer of 1951 on, seminars on sociological research methods, with additional seminars on the basic concepts of sociology and social science training following soon after. Adorno, who for a long time was not nearly as popular among the students as Horkheimer, gave only philosophical courses for years after returning to independent teaching in the summer of 1950. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 473

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s Kafka/Goon Squad ‘critical theory as training’ thread — here the training is apprenticeship by unlabeled example rather than by curriculum. — connects to: Postwar German philosophy and sociology both failed to produce socially engaged teaching. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 472; The Frankfurt School revised its theories in response to the changing postwar social reality — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 765; Post-war Horkheimer and Adorno taught philosophy, not Critical Theory — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1917 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Postwar German philosophy and sociology both failed to produce socially engaged teaching. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 472; The Frankfurt School revised its theories in response to the changing postwar social reality — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 765; Post-war Horkheimer and Adorno taught philosophy, not Critical Theory — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1917 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Post-war Horkheimer and Adorno taught philosophy, not Critical Theory #corroborates (0.93) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1917
• The Frankfurt School disguised critical theory as traditional social science to secure funding. #complicates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1510