Horkheimer’s inner conflicts shaped the Institute’s patriarchal enclave structure.

Evidence

Horkheimer’s hesitation was due not only to his tremendous cautiousness and lack of decisiveness, but also to his vacillation between the interior and the exterior, between a need for knowledge and discovery and a need for academic administrative activity and the exercise of power, between a longing for independence and a longing for institutional security and official recognition. This vacillation led in practice, on this occasion as well, to a patriarchally structured enclave critical of society being set up in the very lap of bourgeois society. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 589

Categorization

• DEFINE: Caption-worthy characterization of the Frankfurt School’s institutional paradox: a critique-of-society enclave sustained inside bourgeois academia.
• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer’s institutional dominance was baked into the Institut’s founding structure — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 109; Horkheimer conceived the Institute as a homogeneous group defined by shared attitudes — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 435; Exile intensified hierarchy and dependency within the Institute. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 589 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer’s institutional dominance was baked into the Institut’s founding structure #expands (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 109
• Horkheimer simultaneously pursued disengaged isolation and maximum institutional establishment status #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1706
• Horkheimer conceived the Institute as a homogeneous group defined by shared attitudes #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 435
• Exile intensified hierarchy and dependency within the Institute. #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 589