Hard times make scholars cling to institutions that humiliate them.

Evidence

The devotion of the staff to the Institute and to Horkheimer, with directors such as these, became constantly more desperate, as the prospects of an academic career were particularly poor during these years. Even for members of staff who were humiliated, the Institute remained attractive. It still appeared not only to be an authority offering protection and help, no matter how arbitrarily or provisionallyit was able to provide money, opportunities for publication, recommendations, certificates, etc.but also to be the only bastion left for significant theoretical work. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 286

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the theme of social capital as entailing obligations and dependency relationships, not merely resources. — connects to: Seventeenth-century Orientalist scholarship could ruin its practitioners financially and physically — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists…, 173; Enthusiasm-puncturing academics breed more grey vampires through belittled students — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2446
• DEEPTHINKING: A precise anatomy of how a whole intellectual cohort’s loyalty was structurally manufactured by the collapse of outside markets, independent of any personal affection.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Seventeenth-century Orientalist scholarship could ruin its practitioners financially and physically — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists…, 173; Enthusiasm-puncturing academics breed more grey vampires through belittled students — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2446