Financial pressure channeled Marcuse toward Columbia, where he was the Institute’s most respected member

Evidence

The strategy of putting Marcuse under financial pressure, to make him look around for a job which would make it possible for him to work for the Institute without having more than nominal financial claims on it, was effective. Not only Horkheimer but Marcuse himself urged that he should go to New York so as to be at the disposal of MacIver, who had a particularly high opinion of him, and to bring the negotiations over departmental lectures by Institute associates to a successful conclusion. If he had any chances of an academic career at all, it would not be at the largely reactionary universities in California, but at Columbia, where he was the most respected member of the Institute after Neumann. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 318

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Marcuse’s Reason and Revolution was pursued partly to ease his departure from the Institute — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1092; Editorial demands for German-language mediation strained Marcuse’s ties to the Institute — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 525; Marcuse’s devotion let Horkheimer exploit him as a goodwill extension of the Institute — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 486 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Marcuse’s Reason and Revolution was pursued partly to ease his departure from the Institute — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1092; Editorial demands for German-language mediation strained Marcuse’s ties to the Institute — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 525; Marcuse’s devotion let Horkheimer exploit him as a goodwill extension of the Institute — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 486 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The Institute remained socially isolated from Columbia’s professoriate despite its relocation there #complicates (0.76) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1230
• Editorial demands for German-language mediation strained Marcuse’s ties to the Institute #complicates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 525