Exiled critical theorists returned to Germany while exiled neopositivists never did

Evidence

Critical philosophy was able to do so thanks to the return from exile of Horkheimer and Adorno. None of the neopositivists who had fled ever returned to Germany. Up to the 1960s, neopositivismwhich had a monopoly position in the USA, Scandinavia and Hollandinfluenced the philosophical scene in German-speaking countries only indirectly. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 562

Categorization

• XREF: Explains the institutional asymmetry behind the eventual positivism dispute in German sociology.
• SEED: Angle: how the accident of who came home from exile determined which philosophy dominated postwar Germany.