The rupture between Critical Theorists and student radicals was structural, not personal.
Evidence
No understanding between Critical Theorists and critical students was ever reached, either on the theoretical level or on the subject of university organization. The students expected the left-wing professors to stake their whole existences on a revolution the students believed was close at hand. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 665
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Deep mutual reservations prevented the Critical Theorists from resolving their differences. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 534; The same Critical Theorists took divergent, conflicted stances toward the student movement. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 658; Symbiotic interpersonal routines prevented Critical Theorists from questioning their own aims. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 457 (+5 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Deep mutual reservations prevented the Critical Theorists from resolving their differences. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 534; The same Critical Theorists took divergent, conflicted stances toward the student movement. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 658; Symbiotic interpersonal routines prevented Critical Theorists from questioning their own aims. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 457 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Symbiotic interpersonal routines prevented Critical Theorists from questioning their own aims.
#complicates(0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 457 - Anti-authoritarian student leaders drew directly on Adornian Critical Theory, not orthodox Marxism
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