Horkheimer’s collective-turn reforms revived founding-director Gerlach’s interdisciplinary vision, not merely a break from Grünberg

Evidence

What in some respects seemed to be a betrayal of the Grünberg period meant in others, however, a return to the Institute’s inaugural period and to Gerlach. Even before his memorandum on the Institute in his report on the reform of political science, Gerlach had already pointed out the necessity of reorganizing all areas of the social sciences and the fact that there was an urge towards greater philosophical and sociological unity', the ultimate goal of which was co-operation between specialists. He had emphasized the indispensability of broad approaches’, since these alone could offer the researcher meaning from the perspective of life'. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 156</cite> (#corroborates`, via linked claim)

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• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer’s unity-of-social-sciences program revived Gerlach’s original founding vision. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 156

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer’s unity-of-social-sciences program revived Gerlach’s original founding vision. #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 156