Horkheimer’s editorial silence let rival Institute positions coexist without resolution.

Evidence

We can only guess what Horkheimer thought at the time, since he published Fromm’s essay (checked in detail like all the others) as a ‘leading’ article in the journal and did not react with a single word to Adorno’s criticisms, at least not in his letters. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 289

Categorization

• QUESTION: Whether Horkheimer’s private agreement sat closer to Fromm or Adorno here is left unresolved by the letters — a gap worth chasing in later chapters on the Fromm break.
• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer blocked publication of the Institute’s student politics study — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2356
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer blocked publication of the Institute’s student politics study — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2356