Horkheimer craved academic standing while despising teaching for it

Evidence

For Horkheimer, at least, all this was an irritating distraction from the real work. He did not want to invest much time and energy in it, and was not particularly interested in what the students were interested in. On the other hand, it was, in the long run, not dignified enough for him merely to give badly attended lectures in the Extension Division on topics unrelated to examination subjects. And in 1939-40 he, Lowenthal and Adorno all felt it as an insult to the Institute when Neumann, who was much more successful as a university teacher, was appointed to a professorship at Columbia, and not Horkheimer. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 273

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the sociology-of-knowledge theme that institutional standing and intellectual authority are mutually constitutive, familiar from Bourdieu-style analyses. — connects to: Horkheimer pursued a conventional academic career unlike his Frankfurt School peers; Financial insecurity drove Horkheimer to criticize the bourgeoisie yet bind himself to it — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 272; Horkheimer declined sabbaticals because they cost him lecturing fees — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 493
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer pursued a conventional academic career unlike his Frankfurt School peers; Financial insecurity drove Horkheimer to criticize the bourgeoisie yet bind himself to it — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 272; Horkheimer declined sabbaticals because they cost him lecturing fees — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 493