Employment at the exiled Institute was terminated by quiet administrative pressure.
Evidence
At the beginning of September 1939 Pollock informed Neumann that he would have to leave the Institute on 1 October 1940. In August 1940 Lowenthal advised Horkheimer, who was away on a journey lasting several weeks to look for a place suitable for him to work in on the west coast, to keep the Institute running in New York for another year. Horkheimer would at that point be able to see `where we are heading’, would be rid of Neumann, provided sufficient attention was given to getting rid of him, and would be able to put Marcuse under enough financial and moral pressure that he would leave to go to a college, if he was offered another $1200 from autumn 1941 onwards. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 285
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the earlier pattern of Institute members being financially squeezed out (Fromm, Benjamin) mentioned in prior chapters. — connects to: Humiliated staff stayed because the Institute was exile’s only bastion for theoretical work — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1096; Secrecy about finances demoralized the Institute’s staff — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 272; Deliberate funding starvation pushed Institute members toward government employment — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 321
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Humiliated staff stayed because the Institute was exile’s only bastion for theoretical work — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1096; Secrecy about finances demoralized the Institute’s staff — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 272; Deliberate funding starvation pushed Institute members toward government employment — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 321
Broader Connections
- Secrecy about finances demoralized the Institute’s staff
#complicates(0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 272