Theology-Marxism mediation hindered rather than helped Benjamin’s originality

Evidence

In the rest of the work, Benjamin relinquished his claim to Marxist competence. Although, in the second Baudelaire essay, the way in which he drew on his earlier essay, `The Storyteller’, might be seen as a return to trains of thought respected by Adorno, and to specifically Benjaminian categories, as a whole it was evident that the mediation between theology and Marxist theory was not really Benjamin’s affair, and that it hindered rather than encouraged the originality of development of central motifs of his thinking. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 890

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 890
• XREF: connects to: Adorno supervised Benjamin’s attempt to fuse theology with historical materialism; Adorno and Benjamin diverged on whether Marxism solved or truncated problems — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 893; Benjamin’s stated Marxism was not backed by practical competence in Marxist theory — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 889 (+1 more)