The Frankfurt theorists idealized radical loners they could not actually tolerate

Evidence

During the 1950s, Jahnn, who was also an organ-builder, hormone researcher and editor of early music, as well as a critic of cruelty to animals and extinction of species, devoted most of his energies to the struggle against the atomic bomb. He too was a loner fighting a lost cause in the context of the Federal Republic’s Restauratorium'. 31 Adorno and Jahnn might have met at the Darmstadt discussions in 1950 on The Image of Man in Our Time’; perhaps they did. If they did, thenin spite of their closeness in terms of the radicality of their criticisms of civilization and their preference for the interrelation between instinct and mind and for humanity to reconsider the way in which it forms a part of creationJahnn’s complete lack of refinement and refusal to make concessions to public opinion and social etiquette would at best have shocked Adorno. Jahnn was one of the loners on whom Dialectic of Enlightenment and Minima Moralia had counted, but Horkheimer and Adorno were in reality rather alarmed by people like this. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 547

Categorization

• DEFINE: Specifies what ‘the loners’ in Dialectic of Enlightenment and Minima Moralia actually referred to as a social type.
• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School’s ambivalent reception of unaffiliated radicals documented earlier in the institutional history. — connects to: Communitarian theorists could not live in the societies they extol. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 863; Theorists’ political loyalties and productive interests can violently contradict each other — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 236
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Communitarian theorists could not live in the societies they extol. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 863; Theorists’ political loyalties and productive interests can violently contradict each other — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 236

Broader Connections

• Theorists’ political loyalties and productive interests can violently contradict each other #complicates (0.70) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 236