Horkheimer’s unity-of-social-sciences program revived Gerlach’s original founding vision.

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’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 156

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Academic freedom was inseparable from radical social aims for Gerlach — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 52; Horkheimer’s inaugural lecture inaugurated his new research program. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 146; Horkheimer consistently translated Marx’s transcendence of bourgeois science into interdisciplinary social research. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1901 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer pressed the group toward a total theory of contemporary society. #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 19
• Horkheimer consistently translated Marx’s transcendence of bourgeois science into interdisciplinary social research. #expands (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1901