Horkheimer’s revived journal would blend theory, translations, and empirical study extracts

Evidence

Each issue was to consist of four parts, as Horkheimer told Adorno: (1) Articles, either by us (reworking material from the earlier journal if necessary), or representative articles by friends of the Institute, to whom I will send written requests, e.g. Allport, Cantril, Klineberg, Georges Friedmann (or any others you can get for us). (2) Texts. Here I am mainly thinking of passages from the literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which have been translated into German either inadequately or not at all. One needn’t restrict these to crucial information, on the contrary … (3) Extracts from empirical studies at the Institute. Here we might think of studies from the practical training courses, the radio study, the expert survey, the student project, and finally parts of the group study, if it is not possible in the end to bring that out as a small book. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1965

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer sought to fuse European critical theory with American empirical methods — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1520; Horkheimer steered the Institute toward empirical research while retaining theoretical control — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1495; Horkheimer sought applied topics that could present his theory as expert social knowledge — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1338

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer sought to fuse European critical theory with American empirical methods #corroborates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1520
• Horkheimer sought applied topics that could present his theory as expert social knowledge #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1338
• Horkheimer steered the Institute toward empirical research while retaining theoretical control #corroborates (0.70) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1495