Exile dispersed the Institute’s core members but preserved its journal work.

Evidence

From the second English-language issue of the journal onwards, which had been a special issue on mass communication, each issue was to have a special theme. For autumn 1941, an issue on bureaucracy was planned, for spring 1942 an issue on methodology, and for the summer one on public opinion. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 3333 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: The exiled Institute restructured its journal around thematic special issues — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 3333; Exile dispersed the Institute’s staff into private homes and outside affiliations, dissolving collective research.; The Institute saw reviving its journal as the mechanism for institutional continuity across generations.

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