Direct confrontation at Tübingen muted rather than clarified the sociologists’ real differences.

Evidence

The Tübingen working session did not however confirm this assumption. Although both symposiasts did not hesitate, in their expositions, to adopt unequivocally a definite position, the discussion generally lacked the intensity that would have been appropriate to the actual differences in views. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 595

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why did an explicitly staged confrontation of incompatible positions produce a discussion that avoided the real stakes? Worth chasing whether institutional protocol suppressed the underlying moral-political conflict.
• XREF: connects to: Direct confrontation between philosophers can leave both parties puzzled and affronted — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 279; Geheim markings marked official disagreement rather than hidden truths.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Direct confrontation between philosophers can leave both parties puzzled and affronted — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 279; Geheim markings marked official disagreement rather than hidden truths.