A funded research project can outgrow its institute and consume its founders’ work.

Evidence

The anti-Semitism project had at one time been seen as the saving of the Institute. This was before it turned into its central business, far beyond the ability of the rump of the Institute to cope with, and pushed everything else into the background, even for Horkheimer and Adorno. It now developed into an assortment of failures and successes which the two of them looked on with constantly changing feelings. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 420

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Institute’s shift from philosophy-of-history to funded empirical research under the AJC, tracked elsewhere in this book. — connects to: Exiled research institutes survive only by attaching to host institutions’ projects. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 300; Intellectual openness can subvert an institution’s founding purpose. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 55; Institutionalizing a critical intellectual project can strip it of its political force.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Exiled research institutes survive only by attaching to host institutions’ projects. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 300; Intellectual openness can subvert an institution’s founding purpose. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 55; Institutionalizing a critical intellectual project can strip it of its political force.