The Grunberg-era Institute produced little theoretical innovation before the Frankfurt School turn

Evidence

Ultimately, Swede’s impatience with the unimaginative Marxism of the Grunberg years was to be shared by the Institut’s later leaders, who were to comprise the Frankfurt School; but during the twenties, little theoretical innovation occurred at what the students were to call the “Cafe Marx.” — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 113

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Supports the standard narrative that the ‘Cafe Marx’ phase was doctrinal and unoriginal, setting up the generation break that defines the Frankfurt School’s founding story.

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