Adorno suppressed a journal article to protect Institute funding negotiations

Evidence

For example, Adorno attempted to prevent publication of an article by Max Bense on Hegel and the Californian Left' 47 in Merkur. He wrote to Hans Paeschke, the editor of Merkur: We are involved at the moment in negotiations on setting up a branch of our Institute in Frankfurt, and, little though Bense's criticism might affect the outcome of these negotiations, it might create a certain number of apparent difficulties . . . But I believe I have the more reason to appeal to your sympathy in that the article associates us with several theoreticians with whom we have the sharpest differences: we are working on a critical analysis of Lukács for the second volume of the Dialectics’, and for objective reasons I have been completely at variance with my former friend Ernst Bloch for many years now. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 429

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the Institute’s broader pattern of strategic self-censorship for American funders, documented elsewhere in this book. — connects to: The Institute traded publication for citations and excluded Bloch from its journal — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 210; Adorno’s reservations blocked publication of Benjamin’s Passagenarbeit section — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 616; The Institute suppressed Jewish-psychology research out of sensitivity and political caution — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1550 (+5 more)
• SEED: An essay on how intellectual institutions police their own public image through editorial pressure and private letters, using the Adorno-Bense correspondence as the case.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Institute traded publication for citations and excluded Bloch from its journal — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 210; Adorno’s reservations blocked publication of Benjamin’s Passagenarbeit section — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 616; The Institute suppressed Jewish-psychology research out of sensitivity and political caution — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1550 (+5 more)