Frankfurt theorists fought Nazi-linked sociologists through academic politics, not public critique

Evidence

Horkheimer and Adorno, too, remained silent in public, only attempting to block the influence of such people in the academic fieldfor example, by giving their advice in 1958 at the request of a professor at Heidelberg who wanted to prevent Gehlen from being appointed to a professorship at that prestigious university or by involving themselves in the elections for the executive committee of the German Sociological Association, in which Schelsky was playing an increasingly important part. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2316

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer and Adorno opposed ex-Nazi sociologists through private academic maneuvering, not public critique. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2316; Only three of eight postwar West German sociology chairs went to anti-fascists — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1914; Five of eight postwar German sociology chairs went to Nazi-era careerists — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1914

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer and Adorno opposed ex-Nazi sociologists through private academic maneuvering, not public critique. #expands (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2316