The same Critical Theorists took divergent, conflicted stances toward the student movement.

Evidence

It seemed inevitable that an unhappy relationship between the student opposition and the Critical Theorists would develop, despite the variety of the positions the theorists took and the various ways they reacted. Adorno’s reaction was that of an academic teacher rather remote from political matters who had, in his writings, ensured that critical thought was passed on to the extra-parliamentary opposition that was gradually awakening in the very lap of restoration in the Federal Republic. He held back in public on his judgement of the effects of his intellectual work, neither openly identifying himself with them nor distancing himself from them. Habermas, as an academic teacher and writer with definite interests in the philosophy of politics, reflected on the connections between science, university and society, and identified himself with the protest movement. Occasionally, however, he tried to clarify the goals and methods, opportunities and dangers for this movement with an acuity that objectively had the effect of distancing him from it. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 658

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Marcuse’s Great Refusal and counter-university as the conceptual bridge between theory and protest. — connects to: Deep mutual reservations prevented the Critical Theorists from resolving their differences. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 534; The student movement split between revolutionary strategies and demands for self-directed study. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 667; The rupture between Critical Theorists and student radicals was structural, not personal. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 665 (+2 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 student movement split between revolutionary strategies and demands for self-directed study. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 667; The rupture between Critical Theorists and student radicals was structural, not personal. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 665 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Anti-authoritarian student leaders drew directly on Adornian Critical Theory, not orthodox Marxism #complicates (0.76)