Exiles saw postwar Germany as the decisive site for preserving intellectual life

Evidence

If one works with absolute devotion, and does not allow oneself to be driven crazy by severe disappointments, it will probably be possible to show a few people in today’s Germany what should be preserved through the night of history. The dangers are greater here than in other places on earth. But there is hardly anywhere else which is more important at the moment than Germany. If the last remnants of intellectual life were completely extinguished there, something would be lost to the world that ought to be preserved. … If it is not possible, with the help of those elements with awareness or which are at least undecided, to break the frightful reaction which has already consolidated itself there, then the anti-Russian policy of the Western powers in Europe will be carried through with a massive chauvinistic and anti-Semitic energy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 424

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Adorno’s and Horkheimer’s stated postwar resolve to rebuild German intellectual life documented earlier in the same institutional history. — connects to: European intellectuals saw postwar Germany as preferable to America for intellectual life; German exiles viewed America as a place where intellectuals were subordinated to practical utility — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1745; Horkheimer saw postwar Germany as the world’s decisive battleground for intellectual survival. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1715
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: European intellectuals saw postwar Germany as preferable to America for intellectual life; German exiles viewed America as a place where intellectuals were subordinated to practical utility — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1745; Horkheimer saw postwar Germany as the world’s decisive battleground for intellectual survival. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1715

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer saw postwar Germany as the world’s decisive battleground for intellectual survival. #exemplifies (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1715