Writing Dialectic of Enlightenment left Horkheimer intellectually exhausted

Evidence

The critique of rationality in the Dialectic of Enlightenment, which Adorno wrote together with Horkheimer in the last years of the Second World War, did not alter Adorno’s thinking. But Horkheimer had parted ways with the social psychologist Erich Fromm and the legal and state theorists Franz Neumann and Otto Kirchheimer in the years before his collaborative work with Adorno, and had thus virtually abandoned his programme for an interdisciplinary general theory of society. After the Dialectic of Enlightenment, he was left with empty hands. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 12

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer produced almost no serious theoretical work after Dialectic of Enlightenment. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1683; Dialectic of Enlightenment initially baffled even the Institute’s own inner circle — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1448

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer produced almost no serious theoretical work after Dialectic of Enlightenment. #corroborates (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1683