Exile luck should not be fetishized into an institutionalized refusal to return.

Evidence

Great though our luck was in being allowed to survive, the conditions which produced that luck have passed away, and we cannot let ourselves turn them into fetishes. The old rule that the returning exile should have a look round to see what he can achieve seems to me to hold more wisdom than today’s institutionalized demand for the opposite, supported by the petty-bourgeoisie, who misuse their wounded dignity as an excuse for the most wretched conformism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 481

Categorization

• DEFINE: Adorno mocks the ‘institutionalized demand’ that exiles stay away, calling it petty-bourgeois conformism masquerading as wounded dignity.
• XREF: connects to: Exile names state-imposed impossibility, not voluntary professional relocation. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 332; Exile means state coercion and fear, not professional convenience — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 134; Exile describes an attitude toward power, not physical displacement — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 209 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Exile names state-imposed impossibility, not voluntary professional relocation. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 332; Exile means state coercion and fear, not professional convenience — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 134; Exile describes an attitude toward power, not physical displacement — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 209 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Exile can mean losing one’s homeland to change rather than longing to return #complicates (0.75) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 688
• Exile describes an attitude toward power, not physical displacement #complicates (0.72) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 209