The Frankfurt School label originated as an outsider term in the 1960s

Evidence

The term Frankfurt School' was a label first applied by outsiders in the 1960s, but Adorno in the end used it himself with obvious pride. To start with, it described a critical sociology which saw society as an antagonistic totality, and which had not excluded Hegel and Marx from its thinking, but rather saw itself as their heir. The label has, however, long since become more vague and all-embracing. Herbert Marcuse's media notoriety as an idol of rebellious students along with Marx, Mao Zedong and Ho Chi Minh gave the Frankfurt School a mythical status. In the early 1970s the American historian Martin Jay brought this myth back down to earth, back to its basis in historical fact, and made clear how multi-faceted the reality behind the label Frankfurt School’ was. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The German spelling of Institut will be used throughout the text to set it apart from any other institute. It will also be used as coterminous with the “Frankfurt School” in the period after 1933. What must be remembered, however, is that the notion of a specific school did not develop until after the Institut was forced to leave Frankfurt (the term itself was not used until the Institut returned to Germany in t95o). As will be made clear in the opening chapter, the Weimar Institut was far too pluralist in its Marxism to allow the historian to identify its theoretical perspective with that of the Frankfurt School as it emerged in later years. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 2144 (#expands, via linked claim)

For me there was never a consistent theory. Adorno wrote essays on the critique of culture and also gave seminars on Hegel. He presented a certain Marxist backgroundand that was it. … This was how Jürgen Habermas, Adorno’s research assistant at the Institute in the later 1950s, saw things in retrospect. When the image of a school' did appear in the 1960s, it was a mixture of the idea of a critical sociology represented in Frankfurt by Adorno and Habermas, and the idea of an early, radically social-critical, FreudianMarxist period of the Institute under Horkheimer's direction. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 10</cite> (#responds-to`, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Frankfurt School’s New Left influence peaked only decades after its founding — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 4; The Frankfurt School label originated with 1960s outsiders and gained mythical status through Marcuse — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2; The term Frankfurt School emerged only after the Institut’s exile — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 2144 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The Frankfurt School label originated with 1960s outsiders and gained mythical status through Marcuse #corroborates (1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2
• The term Frankfurt School emerged only after the Institut’s exile #expands (0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 2144
• The Frankfurt School is a retrospective construction mixing two distinct phases #responds-to (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 10