The New York circle’s 1937 aesthetics essays ignored Benjamin and Adorno’s modernist arguments.

Evidence

In 1937 Marcuse’s essay on The Affirmative Character of Culture' and Lowenthal's article Knut Hamsun: the Pre-history of Authoritarian Ideology’ appeared in the journal. (Following on from his articles on Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Dostoevsky and Ibsen, this was not only the last in Lowenthal’s series of articles on the classics of bourgeois culture but also the last of his essays to appear in the ZfS.) … They were unaffected by the demand to concentrate on the work itself and its own methods of procedure and levels of significance; unaffected, too, by the fact that modernism had been developing in art since the middle of the nineteenth centuryone of the characteristics of modernism being a decline in the transfiguring function of art. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 239

Categorization

• XREF: Maps the two-track aesthetics of the Horkheimer circle: the Frankfurt Benjamin/Adorno debates versus the New York materialist-aesthetics articles. — connects to: Benjamin and Adorno monopolized the Institute’s aesthetic criticism after 1937. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 914
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Benjamin and Adorno monopolized the Institute’s aesthetic criticism after 1937. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 914

Broader Connections

• Benjamin and Adorno monopolized the Institute’s aesthetic criticism after 1937. #complicates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 914