The Frankfurt School’s scholarly moment ended but its reception lay ahead

Evidence

Significantly for The Dialectical Imagination’s later fate, the reception of Critical Theory outlived the moment of the recovery and absorption of Western Marxism in the 1970s. The end of this moment betokened a precipitous decline in interest in other figures in its history, such as Karl Korsch, Louis Althusser or Lucien Goldmann, but the Frankfurt School managed to become an enduring fixture in the theoretical landscape of the late 20th century. Although its coherence as a monolithic school may now seem less evident than it did when I first sought to write its history, the general impulses of Critical Theory are still identifiable a quarter century later, even as its work has been hybridized and amalgamated with other theoretical tendencies. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 14 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Frankfurt School outlived the 1970s Western Marxism revival that sank rival theorists — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 14; The Frankfurt School’s mature critique reached its peak in the American exile period — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 771; The Frankfurt School’s institutional forms shifted across three distinct eras and three geographic sites — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 21 (+3 more)

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• The Frankfurt School’s mature critique reached its peak in the American exile period (similarity 0.88)
• The Frankfurt School’s New Left influence peaked only decades after its founding (similarity 0.87)
• The Frankfurt School anticipated major American concerns by decades. (similarity 0.86)
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• The term Frankfurt School emerged only after the Institut’s exile (similarity 0.84)
• The Frankfurt School label originated as an outsider term in the 1960s (similarity 0.83)
• The Frankfurt School’s critique anticipated later postmodernist themes (similarity 0.83)
• The Frankfurt School revised its theories in response to the changing postwar social reality (similarity 0.82)
• The Frankfurt School’s notion of Enlightenment expanded to cover all Western thought (similarity 0.82)
• Changed historical conditions forced critical theory from immanent to transcendent critique (similarity 0.82)
• The Frankfurt School’s institutional forms shifted across three distinct eras and three geographic sites (similarity 0.82)
• The Frankfurt School’s estrangement persisted even after its physical return to Germany. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• The Frankfurt School outlived the 1970s Western Marxism revival that sank rival theorists #complicates (0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 14