The Frankfurt School anticipated major American concerns by decades.

Evidence

In the thirties and forties, however, they were clearly going against the current. Not until somewhat later would their strictures on the disad vantages of modernity begin to make sense to an American audience. It was decades before widespread concern for such issues as ecology, instrumental rationality, and women’s liberation emerged, issues that the Frankfurt School had treated with sophistication a generation before. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 887

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces the reader’s frame on the Frankfurt School’s prescience vis-a-vis later critical theory; connects to contemporary ecological and feminist critiques of instrumental rationality. — connects to: The Frankfurt School’s mature critique reached its peak in the American exile period — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 771