An unfavourable objective situation diverted theorists from theory into academic routine

Evidence

Horkheimer concluded his draft for the preface with the resigned flourish: `The objective situation, which is unfavourable to a discrete theory, was also the reason why the authors have devoted more of their energy to their academic duties than they would ever have considered possible. That energy has gone into lectures, speeches, talks and seminars.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 592

Categorization

• XREF: Cross-references the earlier discussion in this book of Horkheimer and Adorno courting state and business authorities rather than the labour movement — the turn to academic duties as camouflage. — connects to: Academic institutionalization severed feminist theory from feminist practice — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 136; Feminist theory practiced outside academia reaches people who yearn for it — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 155; Academic institutionalization threatens the political stakes of critical theory — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 257 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Academic institutionalization severed feminist theory from feminist practice — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 136; Feminist theory practiced outside academia reaches people who yearn for it — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 155; Academic institutionalization threatens the political stakes of critical theory — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 257 (+1 more)