The Frankfurt School suppressed foundational questions more firmly than missing economic analysis.

Evidence

As late as 1954, when Adorno revived his old plan to publish a collection of articles consisting of Institute studies on mass culture, he complained in a letter to Lowenthal that `There is, of course, something decisive missing, namely a theoretical economic analysis of the basis of the culture industry.’ Just as the need for this had been emphasized again and again, and then suppressed during practical work, the need for a discussion of the foundations of Critical Theory had now suddenly become urgentand was suppressed even more firmly than the need for theoretical economic analysis had been. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2148

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: institutional suppression of self-examination in intellectual movements, using the Frankfurt School’s neglected economic-analysis and foundational-theory gaps as the case.
• XREF: connects to: The Frankfurt School’s residual faith in reason tempered its Weberian pessimism — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 782; Fascism froze the Frankfurt School’s analysis into repulsion — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 1750; The Institute suppressed Fromm’s Weimar worker study for ideological reasons — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 716 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The Institute suppressed Fromm’s Weimar worker study for ideological reasons #exemplifies (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 716
• The Frankfurt School’s residual faith in reason tempered its Weberian pessimism #complicates (0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 782
• The Institute suppressed overt politics in favor of indirect critical presentation #corroborates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 539
• Fascism froze the Frankfurt School’s analysis into repulsion #contradicts (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 1750