A journal reviving an intellectual school needs a critical mass of contributors

Evidence

The difficulty is that earlier on we all basically put all our energies into the journal in the same spirit. Apart from ourselves, there are only Dirks and Dahrendorf now. Of course, we would have to publish something in it together ourselves in the end, but firstly when I get back I will need some prolonged rest, and secondly it wasn’t articles we had in mind, but a more extensive publication. In any case, we cannot let the journal cast a shadow over the light the Institute is still able to give off. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 496

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier chapters’ account of the Institute’s staffing crises and Horkheimer’s chronic fear of decline. — connects to: Interdisciplinary work thrives only through concentrated narrow focus by a young critical mass; Creating new intellectual strata from unprepared groups faces unprecedented difficulty; Independent publishing can revive a public intellectual discourse — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 292
• DEFINE: Concretely names the Institute’s remaining personnel: Horkheimer, Adorno, Dirks, and Dahrendorf.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Interdisciplinary work thrives only through concentrated narrow focus by a young critical mass; Creating new intellectual strata from unprepared groups faces unprecedented difficulty; Independent publishing can revive a public intellectual discourse — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 292