Founded-board dynamics and suspicion stalked the émigré Institute’s grant applications
Evidence
No wonder Horkheimer began to think there were people turning up at the decisive meetings of the grant boards, prompted by information from old opponents of the Institute from its Frankfurt days, pointing out the obscure character of the circle at the Institute: there was no evidence that they really did any social research there; no sign that they wanted to adapt themselves to the American way of life; no adjustment to local customs, according to which the director and all the members of an academic institution were dependent on a board of well-known businessmen not only in name but in fact. In Horkheimer’s view, as he mentioned in a letter to Adorno following the rejection of the application, what lay behind all this, and what made the Institute’s situation so hopeless even without rumours being spread by its old opponents, was: the universal law of monopoly society. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1150
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Tenured professors face their own subtle corruption via grant and fellowship politics — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 323; The Frankfurt School’s criticism of émigré corruption preceded its own industry funding — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2053; Foundation funding and private research work shaped early neoliberal career paths — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 101 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Tenured professors face their own subtle corruption via grant and fellowship politics
#corroborates(0.85) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 323 - The Frankfurt School’s criticism of émigré corruption preceded its own industry funding
#complicates(0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2053 - Philanthropic funders controlled the political composition of academic advisory committees
#corroborates(0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 756 - Foundation funding and private research work shaped early neoliberal career paths
#corroborates(0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 101