Horkheimer’s university rectorship starved the refounded Institute of his leadership

Evidence

The re-established Institute of Social Research had hardly begun its work when it lost its real members of staff. Horkheimer’s election as rector of Frankfurt University, and his re-election a year later, meant that he had scarcely any time for the Institute alongside his teaching and rectoral duties. Adorno, who himself was under an additional workload as a result of his collaboration on the Darmstadt community studies, although he had a lower teaching load than Horkheimer, took over much of Horkheimer’s work and devoted himself to the Institute intensively. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 480

Categorization

• XREF: A founding figure of Critical Theory absorbed by academic administration is the institutional analogue of the Horkheimer-Adorno turn away from politics documented elsewhere in this book. — connects to: Horkheimer cut the Institute to a skeleton so he could write theory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 287; Horkheimer moved to secure his own funding as the Institute’s endowment shrank. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1086; Administrative duties at the Institute starved Neumann of the publications American academia required — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 948
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer cut the Institute to a skeleton so he could write theory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 287; Horkheimer moved to secure his own funding as the Institute’s endowment shrank. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1086; Administrative duties at the Institute starved Neumann of the publications American academia required — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 948