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That said, Schopenhauer’s eschatology, which Horkheimer shared, is not Marx’s. For Schopenhauer, there is no ultimate redemption, no punishment, no heaven, be it on or beyond Earth. There is, rather, pointlessness on a cosmic scale

But their relationship took a different turn as she became part of the coterie.

Nearly all the leading lights of the Frankfurt School – Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer, Löwenthal, Pollock, Fromm, Neumann – were resistant to the Weltanschauung transmitted by paternal authority, and many rebelled in various ways against their fathers who had become very materially successful.

the childhoods that we will never again live through, except by means of the relatively pallid movement of imaginative creation

for Benjamin, the act of remembrance through writing had a palimpsest, dialectical character that raced backwards and forwards in time