Adorno insisted the Institute owed him material support despite his formal outsider status

Evidence

Adorno, for his part, accused the Institute of having left him behind uninformed and without instructions. … For precisely as long as I was not part of the Institute outwardly or administrativelyand you know that I had been pressing to become a part of it again and again for many years, more or less like a girlfriend pressing to get marriedit was not for me, but for the Institute, to take the decisive step … I was in no sense an outsider who would have had to be supported: I wasas I may say, and as I conclude from your letterpart and parcel of the Institute itself, just like yourself, Pollock and Lowenthal. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 631

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader literature on intellectual exile logistics and how academic émigré institutions rationed scarce support during the 1930s. — connects to: Horkheimer welcomed Adorno’s financial independence from the Institute; Adorno was excluded from Institute membership over philosophical and financial reasons. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 158

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer welcomed Adorno’s financial independence from the Institute #contradicts (0.85)