A conventional academic centre kept Frankfurt’s brilliant outsiders disciplined against laxness.

Evidence

But the decisive point was that between the two extremes of the George Circle and the sociologists, who were virtually friends at first, there was a broad centre which kept the old traditional business of academic life firmly in its hands and carried it forward. This had the healthy effect of making the brilliant outsiders, who occasionally had a tendency to snobbishness, refrain from any academic laxness. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 455

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