Horkheimer’s dominance paralyzed Adorno’s empirical and institutional work into the 1960s
Evidence
His lack of involvement was partly due to the paralysing attitude taken by Horkheimer, who still had the last word in Institute affairs up to the 1960s, and from whom Adorno was unable to free himself; and it was also partly due to Adorno’s own other interests, which were in no way subordinate to his sociological ones. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 520
Categorization
- XREF: Ties to this book’s recurring theme that Horkheimer vetoed or suppressed colleagues’ research, from the Fromm worker study onward. — connects to: Adorno’s fit with the Horkheimer circle was psychological, not merely intellectual.; Horkheimer valued Adorno’s aggressive zeal as a tool for policing bourgeois academic concessions.; Horkheimer pushed Adorno’s music criticism to become direct social critique — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 324 (+4 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno’s fit with the Horkheimer circle was psychological, not merely intellectual.; Horkheimer valued Adorno’s aggressive zeal as a tool for policing bourgeois academic concessions.; Horkheimer pushed Adorno’s music criticism to become direct social critique — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 324 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Adorno’s 1950s empirical method preserved the Institute’s Fromm-Horkheimer schema of economy, psyche, and culture
#complicates(0.87) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1933