Early Frankfurt friendships shaped lifelong Institute member rivalries

Evidence

The intellectual left consisted of the Sociology Department, headed by Karl Mannheim, the Institute of Social Research, headed by Horkheimer, and the group around Paul Tillich. In a speech of acceptance of the City of Frankfurt’s Adorno Prize years later, Norbert Elias, who in his time had come to Frankfurt as Mannheim’s assistant, emphasized that there was virtually no contact between the Institute of Social Research and the Sociology Department, although the sociologists were housed in the ground floor of the same building as the Institute. But Mannheim, Horkheimer and Adorno all belonged to the circle' and were always ready to co-operate with the group around Tillich. A glance at the lecture timetables of the period gives the impression that the intellectual left then formed a weighty and relatively solid contingent, and that Horkheimer did not stand alone with his programme for interdisciplinary social theory. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 458</cite> (#complicates`, via linked claim)

At Frankfurt University, those who had remainedsome of whom had had successful careers under the Third Reich, some of whom had had difficulties in their careers without later being able to claim reparationsand the émigrés, who were asserting their old rights in Frankfurt, confronted one another. They had little or no time for each other. Those representing the university acted calculatingly. Those who wanted to establish themselves afresh in Frankfurt also acted calculatingly. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1744 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Frankfurt psychoanalysis institute formed through personal Jewish intellectual networks in 1926; Postwar Frankfurt University saw hostile encounters between returnees and émigrés — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1744; Frankfurt’s intellectual left of the early 1930s formed a substantial, cooperating bloc — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 458

Broader Connections

• Frankfurt’s intellectual left of the early 1930s formed a substantial, cooperating bloc #complicates (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 458
• Postwar Frankfurt University saw hostile encounters between returnees and émigrés #complicates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1744