Horkheimer blocked Habermas’s Frankfurt Habilitation, pushing his major work to another publisher.

Evidence

Horkheimer, then, who had been living next door to Pollock in Montagnola above Lake Lugano in Switzerland since 1958, and who had received the freedom of the City of Frankfurt in 1960, prevented Habermas from taking his Habilitation in Frankfurt. Habermas’s study of Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere was published in Darmstadt by Luchterhand instead of in Frankfurt. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 591

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Institute’s pattern of suppressing or sidelining its most gifted younger theorists, as with Fromm and Benjamin earlier.