Horkheimer accepted Rockefeller funding while condemning such philanthropy as corrupting.

Evidence

In April 1948 Horkheimer boarded the Queen Mary for a one-month trip to Europe. He had been given a grant by the Rockefeller Foundationthe very institution which, by his own standards, was investing the merest fraction of the surplus from the oldest and largest capitalist conglomerates in the USA in the corruption of intellectual activity and cultureto take up a guest professorship at Frankfurt University. Officially, he was travelling as an American citizen, intending to contribute to the process of educating the Germans in democracyto `re-educating’ the young in Germany and their teachers, a form of re-education which was no longer being carried out through censorship or bureaucracy but which nevertheless gave precedence, within Germany, to American citizens. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 421

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The irony that the Institute’s critique of capitalist patronage was itself funded by that patronage crystallizes Critical Theory’s institutional bind.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno’s critical brilliance made him unpalatable to the Rockefeller funders. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 265; Horkheimer accepted Rockefeller Foundation money while condemning it as corrupting intellectual culture — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1704; Horkheimer accepted Rockefeller funding he privately condemned to return to Frankfurt. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1704 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno’s critical brilliance made him unpalatable to the Rockefeller funders. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 265; Horkheimer accepted Rockefeller Foundation money while condemning it as corrupting intellectual culture — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1704; Horkheimer accepted Rockefeller funding he privately condemned to return to Frankfurt. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1704 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer accepted Rockefeller Foundation money while condemning it as corrupting intellectual culture #expands (0.98) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1704
• Horkheimer accepted Rockefeller funding he privately condemned to return to Frankfurt. #expands (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1704