Horkheimer blocked Habermas’s Habilitation, forcing him to publish elsewhere.

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. This, too, contained no mention of the Institute of Social Research. It was even more successful than Students and Politics. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2383

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader Frankfurt School narrative of generational conflict and the Institute’s declining institutional power in the 1960s. — connects to: Horkheimer blocked Habermas’s Habilitation to drive him out of the Institute — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2359; Habermas left Frankfurt because the Institute blocked interdisciplinary theory work — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2748; Horkheimer suppressed the Institute’s most successful empirical study by denying Habermas its institutional label — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2358 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Habermas left Frankfurt because the Institute blocked interdisciplinary theory work #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2748
• Horkheimer suppressed the Institute’s most successful empirical study by denying Habermas its institutional label #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2358