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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

Its rage for reinventing itself and erecting very nearly bombastic architecture

we still live in a world like the one Frankfurt School excoriated