The pre-1950 Frankfurt School’s dilemmas anticipated and fueled the postwar New Left

Evidence

Because of their intransigent refusal to compromise their theoretical integrity at the same time that they sought to identify a social agency to realize their ideas, the adherents of the Frankfurt School anticipated many of the same issues that were to agonize a later generation of engaged intellectuals. Largely for this reason, the work they did in their early years together excited the imaginations of postwar New Leftists in Europe and, more recently, in America as well. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 76

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to later accounts of how the Frankfurt School was received by the 1960s student movement — including the Marcuse-adopted-by-activists trajectory this reader has met in prior chapters. — connects to: The Frankfurt School’s New Left influence peaked only decades after its founding — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 4; The 1960s student movement alienated the aging Frankfurt School leadership — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 6; Postwar New Leftists rediscovered the Frankfurt School through pirated and reissued pre-1950 writings — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 76 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Postwar New Leftists rediscovered the Frankfurt School through pirated and reissued pre-1950 writings #expands (0.90) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 76
• The 1956 New Left emerged from a third-position third-world student milieu #qualifies (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 930