Former Institut members scattered into American universities and government rather than returning together

Evidence

Otto Kirchheimer also continued to work with the government after the war, first as research analyst in the State Department’s Division of Research for Europe and then, from 1950 to 1955, as chief of the division’s central European branch. For the next seven years, he was on the graduate faculty of the Institut’s old competitor, the New School for Social Research in New York. In 1961 he published his massive work Political Justice. In the following year, he joined the government department at Columbia, where he taught until his death in 1965, a few days after his sixtieth birthday. Other former Institut members also found positions at American universities: Neumann at Columbia, Gerhard Meyer at the University of Chicago, and Massing at Rutgers, where Joseph Maier and M. 1. Finley also joined the faculty. Kurt Mandelbaum, changing his name to Martin, ultimately became an economist in Manchester, England. Henryk Grossman, as mentioned earlier, did return to Germany, but not with the Institut. He went instead to the Soviet Zone, where he spent several unhappy years in Leipzig until his death in 1950. Gurland also returned to Germany in 1950 to teach at the Hochschule fur Politik in Berlin, then at the Technische Hochschule in Darmstadt. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 855

Categorization

• XREF: Career dispersal of Frankfurt School exiles connects to the broader German intellectual emigration story being reconstructed. — connects to: Columbia’s turn toward empiricism and the war loosened the Institut’s ties with the university — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 655; Positive American experiences delayed the Institute’s return to Germany — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 849; Personal American attachments prevented some Institut members from returning to Germany — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 853 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Personal American attachments prevented some Institut members from returning to Germany #corroborates (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 853
• European Orientalist scholars transplanted their paradigm to US universities as imperial power shifted #expands (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 254