Exile concentrated both Horkheimer’s personal power and the Institute’s appeal.

Evidence

Horkheimer’s hesitation was due not only to his tremendous cautiousness and lack of decisiveness, but also to his vacillation between the interior and the exterior, between a need for knowledge and discovery and a need for academic administrative activity and the exercise of power, between a longing for independence and a longing for institutional security and official recognition. This vacillation led in practice, on this occasion as well, to a patriarchally structured enclave critical of society being set up in the very lap of bourgeois society. In the conditions of exile, Horkheimer’s dominant position was stronger than ever, the dependency of his associates greater than ever, and the attractiveness of the Institute as an independent, left-wing intellectual community more than ever unparalleled. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 589

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer’s institutional dominance was baked into the Institut’s founding structure — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 109; Horkheimer’s fear of unprotected exile drove the Institute’s outwardly energetic but directionless survival — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1043; Horkheimer framed the exiled Institute as the sole guardians of advanced German theory — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 637 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer’s institutional dominance was baked into the Institut’s founding structure #expands (0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 109
• Horkheimer’s fear of unprotected exile drove the Institute’s outwardly energetic but directionless survival #complicates (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1043
• Horkheimer framed the exiled Institute as the sole guardians of advanced German theory #complicates (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 637
• Fear drove Horkheimer to keep the Institute impressive while prioritizing private theory work #complicates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1043