The Frankfurt School outlived the 1970s Western Marxism revival that sank rival theorists

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

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader project on the Frankfurt School canon and how theoretical traditions persist or fade. — connects to: The Frankfurt School’s scholarly moment ended but its reception lay ahead; The Frankfurt School outlasted rival Western Marxist figures in influence. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 14