The second generation of Frankfurt School theorists had largely died by 1954

Evidence

The one contributor to Sociologica who would most have been able to meet such expectations, Walter Benjamin, was dead. Franz Neumann was also dead. On leaving the State Department, Neumann had become a visiting professor at Columbia University in 1948, and full Professor of Public Law and Government in 1950. He had been influential as an adviser and guest lecturer during the early years of the Federal Republic, and took part in setting up the Free University of Berlin. He died in a car accident in Switzerland on 2 September 1954. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2010

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader narrative of the Institute’s decline and the generational succession from Horkheimer and Adorno. — connects to: The Frankfurt School revised its theories in response to the changing postwar social reality — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 765

Broader Connections

• The Frankfurt School revised its theories in response to the changing postwar social reality #qualifies (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 765