The 1960s student movement alienated the aging Frankfurt School leadership
Evidence
On January 31st, the Institut fur Sozialforschung itself had been taken over by radical students-or so thought its anxious directors, Adorno and Ludwig von Friedeburg, who had called the police to clear the building. Although it turned out to be just an embarrassing misunderstanding (the students were only looking for a place to hold a discussion), the gulf between the current leadership of the Frankfurt School and their unwanted progeny widened still further. The effects were obvious when Jurgen Hahermas, still under fire for his imprudent condemnation of “left fascism,” showed me the lock on his office phone to prevent students who might break in from making long-distance calls. Adorno also nervously refused to allow me to tape our conversations for fear that he might leave “verbal fingerprints.” — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 6
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s prior passage material on the Frankfurt School’s suppression of Fromm’s worker study and its ambiguous relation to its own radical offspring. — connects to: The Frankfurt School’s New Left influence peaked only decades after its founding — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 4; The pre-1950 Frankfurt School’s dilemmas anticipated and fueled the postwar New Left — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 76; The 1968 student movement regarded the Frankfurt School elders as traitors to the revolution — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 6 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- The 1968 student movement regarded the Frankfurt School elders as traitors to the revolution
#corroborates(0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 6 - The pre-1950 Frankfurt School’s dilemmas anticipated and fueled the postwar New Left
#expands(0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 76 - Anti-hierarchical 1960s youth applied their tactics to their own leaders
#corroborates(0.75) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 85