Benjamin’s Passagen-Werk began after a 1935 talk with Pollock and Institute funding.

Evidence

A talk which Pollock had with Benjamin in the spring of 1935 during a trip to Europe put things in motion. Benjamin started to draft an outline of the Passagen-Werk. The Institute increased its payments to 1000 francs per month, provisionally at first, and later on a permanent basis. However, when Adorno met Pollock during his visit to Europe, Adorno warned him that Benjamin’s book would be too overloaded with metaphysics to fit in with the Institute’s plan of workjust as Adorno’s own book on Kierkegaard had been. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 213

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier chapters’ recurring theme of Institute members policing each other’s theoretical orthodoxy, as with the suppressed Fromm worker study. — connects to: Benjamin joined the Institute’s staff after his Passagen-Werk gained financial support — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 661
• DEFINE: Names the Passagen-Werk (Arcades Project) and its place in Benjamin’s oeuvre.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Benjamin joined the Institute’s staff after his Passagen-Werk gained financial support — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 661