The early Frankfurt School’s instinct-liberation project shifted toward a theological reading of Judaism

Evidence

Horkheimer and Adorno’s view of themselves as hedonistic thinkers concentrating on the recovery and transcendence of instinct developed into a cautious identification with an interpretation of Judaism as a historical form of determinate negation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1434

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to Adorno’s negative dialectics and Horkheimer’s later writings on the Jewish ban on graven images; connects to the reader’s critical theory corpus. — connects to: The Frankfurt School’s 1941 anti-semitism project praised Jewish enlightenment rationalism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1367; Adorno recovered theological motifs materialistically for post-Auschwitz metaphysics — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2569; The Frankfurt School’s residual faith in reason tempered its Weberian pessimism — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 782 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno recovered theological motifs materialistically for post-Auschwitz metaphysics #expands (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2569
• The Frankfurt School’s residual faith in reason tempered its Weberian pessimism #corroborates (0.72) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 782