Sixties radicals regarded Adorno and Horkheimer as sell-outs who betrayed revolution
Evidence
A few months later after a semester back at Harvard, I readied myself to leave for Europe to continue research in Frankfurt and Montagnola, Switzerland. Shortly before my departure in January 1969, I happened to be at a party in New York, where I was introduced to Mark Rudd, the fiery leader of the Columbia student uprising who was soon to embark on the desperate, self-destructive adventure that was called the Weather Underground. When I told him of my dissertation project, he contemptuously responded that Adomo and Horkheimer were craven sell-outs, who had betrayed the revolutionary cause; Adorno’s very change of name from the Jewish-sounding Wiesengrund, Rudd snarled, betokened his cowardice. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 5
Categorization
- QUESTION: The claim that Adorno changed his name from Wiesengrund ‘betokened cowardice’ — worth checking what actually motivated Adorno’s use of ‘Adorno.’
- XREF: connects to: Sixties radicals viewed Adorno’s name change as cowardly betrayal — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 5; Horkheimer and Adorno courted state authorities rather than the labour movement — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1846; The 1968 student movement regarded the Frankfurt School elders as traitors to the revolution — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 6 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- The 1968 student movement regarded the Frankfurt School elders as traitors to the revolution
#corroborates(0.95) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 6 - Sixties radicals viewed Adorno’s name change as cowardly betrayal
#expands(0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 5 - Horkheimer and Adorno courted state authorities rather than the labour movement
#corroborates(0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1846 - Horkheimer and Adorno sought patronage from ruling authorities rather than the left.
#corroborates(0.75) - Late Horkheimer embraced anti-Communist and pro-American rhetoric
#contradicts(0.70) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 1726