California’s cheap living costs drew Horkheimer westward to write the dialectics book

Evidence

The long-cherished plan to write the book with Adorno in the south of France had turned out not to be practicable in 1939 because of conditions in Europe, and he wanted to finish it in California. … It is stupid to live in the east unless it’s absolutely necessary.’ Financial considerations spurred him on in his resolution finally to start serious work on what he saw as his major task and opportunity, the further development of theory in his book on dialectics. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1038

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• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer’s fear of dwindling finances redirected the Institute toward the dialectics book — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1042