Habermas left Frankfurt because the Institute blocked interdisciplinary theory work

Evidence

In 1971 Habermas accepted an appointment as director of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Living Conditions in the Scientific and Technological World at Starnberg, near Munich, hoping to be able to put into practice there the concept of interdisciplinary work on theory which he saw no chance of developing in the Institute of Social Research, although he had been offered a co-directorship of it. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2748

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how the institutional form of a school of thought can become its own constraint — Habermas needed to leave the Institute of Social Research to do the interdisciplinary work the Institute had been founded to do.
• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer blocked Habermas’s Habilitation to drive him out of the Institute — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2359; Horkheimer blocked Habermas’s Habilitation, forcing him to publish elsewhere. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2383; Horkheimer suppressed the Institute’s most successful empirical study by denying Habermas its institutional label — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2358

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer suppressed the Institute’s most successful empirical study by denying Habermas its institutional label #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2358