The Frankfurt School opposed tradition-as-Erfahrung to Enlightenment progress, which destroys it.

Evidence

What should be understood, however, is that by tradition, the Institut meant something very different from the continuation of “progress,” as it was understood by Enlightenment thought. This was clear in the essay “Authoritarian State,” which we examined in the previous chapter, as well as in the Dialectic of the Enlightenment, to which we shall come presently. Tradition referred to the type of integrated experience the Institut members called Erfahrung, which was being destroyed by socalled “progress.” — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 646

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the Institute’s distinctive meaning of ‘tradition’ — Erfahrung, integrated experience — as opposed to the Enlightenment notion of progress.
• XREF: connects to: The Frankfurt School saw Enlightenment’s collapse into totalitarianism as latent in its own reason — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 342

Broader Connections

• The Frankfurt School saw Enlightenment’s collapse into totalitarianism as latent in its own reason #contradicts (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 342