Accepting industry funding would force the Institute to compete on rivals’ terms

Evidence

It was already doing this for the Cologne Research Institute of Sociology and Administrative Studies, under the direction of René König, and the Department of Sociology at the University of Hamburg, under the direction of Helmut Schelsky. This made Adorno very uneasy. He saw the danger of becoming committed to industrial research of a kind . . . we have certain reservations about' which could lead to competition with Schelsky and König on their own level’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 518

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the reader’s holdings on the Horkheimer-Neumann tension and on the Institute’s strategic self-presentation to American and German funders. — connects to: Industrialists wield influence by funding whichever party suits their balance of forces; Industry can distort science simply by funding the researchers who suit it — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False…, 400; Horkheimer carved out the Institute’s identity by playing rivals off each other. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 131
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Industrialists wield influence by funding whichever party suits their balance of forces; Industry can distort science simply by funding the researchers who suit it — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False…, 400; Horkheimer carved out the Institute’s identity by playing rivals off each other. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 131