Adorno’s critical brilliance made him unpalatable to the Rockefeller funders.

Evidence

In an interoffice memorandum' of January 1940, John Marshall, who was the Rockefeller Foundation official responsible for the Princeton Radio Research Project, wrote that Adorno seemed psychologically engaged at the moment by his ability to recognize deficiencies in the broadcasting of music to an extent that makes questionable his own drive to find ways of remedying them’. Productive work could be expected from Adorno `only if he had the collaboration of someone representative of the present system, but tolerant enough of Adorno’s position to see what was useful in it and interpret that for people certain to be intolerant’. But Lazarsfeld’s assurance that exactly this would take place, and a personal visit by Lazarsfeld and Adorno to Marshall in June 1940, were not able to persuade him to change his decision to bring the financing of the music study to an end. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 265

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier Lazarsfeld-Adorno conflict noted in this same volume; funder mediation as a recurring condition of Critical Theory research. — connects to: The Rockefeller rejection may have stemmed from a diplomatic misstep on Tillich’s advice; Horkheimer accepted Rockefeller funding while condemning such philanthropy as corrupting. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 421; Horkheimer accepted Rockefeller funding he privately condemned to return to Frankfurt. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1704
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Rockefeller rejection may have stemmed from a diplomatic misstep on Tillich’s advice; Horkheimer accepted Rockefeller funding while condemning such philanthropy as corrupting. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 421; Horkheimer accepted Rockefeller funding he privately condemned to return to Frankfurt. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1704

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer accepted Rockefeller funding while condemning such philanthropy as corrupting. #complicates (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 421
• Horkheimer accepted Rockefeller funding he privately condemned to return to Frankfurt. #complicates (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1704