Geographic dispersal in exile made theoretical disputes among Critical Theorists irresolvable by correspondence alone

Evidence

As we have mentioned, Marcuse entered the Berlin scene in July 1967 as a celebrated mentor of the New Left. When he arrived, he wanted to have a discussion with Adorno over the serious differences that had arisen between him, on the one side, and Horkheimer and Adorno on the other, concerning their assessment of the USA, the Vietnam War and the student movement. It had not been possible to resolve these differences through correspondence when Marcuse was living in California, Horkheimer in Switzerland and Adorno in Frankfurt. But Adorno had flown back to Frankfurt just before Marcuse arrived in Berlin. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 656

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier Frankfurt School chapters on exile-era finances and the Horkheimer-Neumann split: dispersal both funded and fractured the Institute’s intellectual coherence. — connects to: Deep mutual reservations prevented the Critical Theorists from resolving their differences. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 534; Critical Theory retained a recognizable identity despite integrating endless outside influences — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2760; Institutional disintegration resulted partly from the scattering of exiled scholars — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1029 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Deep mutual reservations prevented the Critical Theorists from resolving their differences. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 534; Critical Theory retained a recognizable identity despite integrating endless outside influences — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2760; Institutional disintegration resulted partly from the scattering of exiled scholars — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1029 (+4 more)