Adorno’s jealousy and tight finances blocked Marcuse’s return to the Institute.

Evidence

The chance to continue the collaboration remained a dream this time as well. The fact that it did not come true, even in the least, was not the fault of the world spirit. It was because, at the very moment when Horkheimer and Marcuse seemed to be ready to take it seriously, the old pattern of relationships from the time of Marcuse’s separation from Horkheimer reappeared. On the one hand, Horkheimer and the Institute did not want to make any financial commitments to Marcuse, although they had helped him by providing credit during his wife’s long illness; Marcuse, now fifty-five years old, did not want to go to Germany just on the offchance; Adorno showed unconcealed jealousy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1986

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader pattern of the Frankfurt School’s personal dynamics and Horkheimer’s managerial role established across the book. — connects to: Adorno was excluded from Institute membership over philosophical and financial reasons. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 158; Marcuse’s militancy alienated him from his former Institute colleagues. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 4; Adorno and Marcuse broke partly over secondhand misreadings of Marcuse’s positions — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2596

Broader Connections

• Marcuse’s militancy alienated him from his former Institute colleagues. #expands (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 4
• Adorno and Marcuse broke partly over secondhand misreadings of Marcuse’s positions #qualifies (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2596