Postwar German philosophy and sociology both failed to produce socially engaged teaching.
Evidence
It was unusual for philosophy students to hear society or socially relevant matters mentioned. … But the sociologists did not offer anything particularly liberating either, although the discipline had suffered particularly severely from the Nazi purges, and one might have expected convinced democrats to move into the old chairs or take up new ones. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 472
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Postwar German social science had fallen behind other industrial nations — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1852; German sociologists largely ignored the student movement until forced to address it — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 661; Postwar Frankfurt teaching shifted from critical theory to conventional philosophy and methods — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 473 (+2 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Postwar German social science had fallen behind other industrial nations — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1852; German sociologists largely ignored the student movement until forced to address it — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 661; Postwar Frankfurt teaching shifted from critical theory to conventional philosophy and methods — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 473 (+2 more)