Horkheimer backed Benjamin’s project financially while remaining indecisive and unpredictable

Evidence

Horkheimer displayed both caution and openmindedness, just as he had done when Fromm joined the Institute, by recognizing Benjamin’s project as an enrichment of materialist theory and having the Institute support it financiallyeven if he did this in an indecisive and unpredictable way characteristic of the Institute’s directors. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 211

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels Horkheimer’s patronage of Benjamin with his earlier recruitment of Fromm — a recurring pattern of cautious institutional absorption. — connects to: Horkheimer’s unpredictable funding pattern read as sadistic to Benjamin — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 774; Horkheimer’s strategic indecision was a survival response to permanent insecurity — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 431
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer’s unpredictable funding pattern read as sadistic to Benjamin — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 774; Horkheimer’s strategic indecision was a survival response to permanent insecurity — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 431

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer’s unpredictable funding pattern read as sadistic to Benjamin #expands (0.93) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 774