Sixties radicals viewed Adorno’s name change as cowardly betrayal

Evidence

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

• XREF: connects to: Sixties radicals regarded Adorno and Horkheimer as sell-outs who betrayed revolution — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 5; Adorno legally renamed himself during his Californian exile in 1943