The Horkheimer circle self-identified as social non-conformists against conformingly anti-social society

Evidence

Minima Moralia, Adorno’s counterpart to Horkheimer’s Dawn, confirmed that those who were left in the Horkheimer circle viewed themselves as a group of non-conformist intellectuals, as social non-conformists' who were opposed to those who were conformingly anti-social’ and who were addressing themselves to `decent’ (anständig) individuals (to use an expression Horkheimer and Adorno liked to employ in non-theoretical contexts). — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 419

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fixes the circle’s self-description, pairing ‘social non-conformist’ against ‘conformingly anti-social’.
• SHARE: Inside-baseball Frankfurt terminology (‘anständig’, the conformingly anti-social) that a fellow Critical Theory reader would enjoy.
• XREF: connects to: The non-antisemitic personality’s conformity can rival the antisemite’s — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 401; Horkheimer repeatedly traded scholarly nonconformity for social recognition — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1973; Anti-conformity movements reproduce the conformity they reject — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 728 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The non-antisemitic personality’s conformity can rival the antisemite’s — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 401; Horkheimer repeatedly traded scholarly nonconformity for social recognition — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1973; Anti-conformity movements reproduce the conformity they reject — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 728 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Anti-conformity movements reproduce the conformity they reject #complicates (0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 728