Adorno both doubted the Institute’s framework and feared seeming disloyal to it.

Evidence

Adorno was still hoping to bring his own position and that of his theological-materialist friends to the forefront in the journal. But he clearly doubted whether the decisive presentation of this position would be possible within the framework of the Institute’s work, and, on the other hand, he did not want to take responsibility for anything which might stir up doubts about his loyalty to Horkheimer and the Institute. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 213

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels Horkheimer’s suppression of Fromm’s Weimar workers’ study in earlier chapters. — connects to: Adorno himself doubted his early phantasmagoria analysis was resolved. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 387; Institute members distrusted colleagues who kept ties to unrepentant Nazi-era philosophers. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 495
• DEEPTHINKING: Captures the core bind of critical theory inside patronage: the very framework that funds the work constrains its revolutionary claim.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno himself doubted his early phantasmagoria analysis was resolved. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 387; Institute members distrusted colleagues who kept ties to unrepentant Nazi-era philosophers. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 495