The Frankfurt School’s intellectual history survives largely in published correspondence.

Evidence

Correspondence Benjamin, Walter. Briefe, ed. Gershom Scholem and Theodor W. Adorno. 2 vols. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1966. Löwenthal, Leo. Schriften, vol. 4. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1984, pp. 182-267. (Correspondence between Leo Lowenthal and Max Horkheimer.) Bloch, Ernst. Briefe 1903-1975, ed. Karola Bloch et al. 2 vols. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1985, pp. 669-87. (Letters to and from Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse.) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 786

Categorization

• XREF: These letter collections are the primary source trail for tracing Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Löwenthal, Bloch, and Marcuse’s exchanges. — connects to: Frankfurt School scholarship rests substantially on archival collections — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 22
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Frankfurt School scholarship rests substantially on archival collections — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 22