Schopenhauerian finitude consciousness grounded Horkheimer’s historical-materialist critique

Evidence

In all this there was an echo, which was not heard in his inaugural lecture in 1931, of the Schopenhauerian consciousness of the finiteness, physicality and solidarity of creatures, rather than the activist pathos of German Idealism. It was, in a way, as if an awareness of the finiteness and transitoriness of human existence was being given a historical-materialist backbone. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 203

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s Critical Theory synthesis: the Schopenhauer strain distinct from Hegelian activism. — connects to: Horkheimer grounded existential finitude in historical materialism against Heidegger and Sartre — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 203; Horkheimer’s critique of Lebensphilosophie defined Critical Theory’s foundations — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 214; A leading Marxist theoretician could in private life be a Schopenhauerian — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 204 (+2 more)
• SHARE: Would fascinate a philosophy colleague tracking Schopenhauer’s underground influence on 20th-century theory.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 203

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer grounded existential finitude in historical materialism against Heidegger and Sartre #corroborates (0.88) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 203
• Horkheimer’s critique of Lebensphilosophie defined Critical Theory’s foundations #expands (0.72) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 214