Horkheimer forced Habermas out of the Institute by imposing a three-year study
Evidence
In the meantime, Habermas had started work on an analysis of changes in the structure and function of the bourgeois public sphere, which he would have liked to use as his Habilitation thesis in Frankfurt. Adorno, who was proud of him, would also have liked to accept the thesis proposal. But Horkheimer, like the king in the fairy-tale who does not want to give away his daughter in marriage, imposed the condition that Habermas must first of all do a study of Richter. This would have taken him three years. Habermas gave in his noticeand Horkheimer had achieved what he wanted: to get rid of someone who in his opinion had incited the Institute’s staff into a kind of class struggle in a teacup, and about whom he had remarked, `He probably has a good, or even brilliant, career as a writer in front of him, but he would only cause the Institute immense damage.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2359
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Horkheimer blocked Habermas’s Habilitation to drive him out of the Institute — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2359; Horkheimer suppressed the Institute’s most successful empirical study by denying Habermas its institutional label — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2358; Horkheimer’s postwar conservatism led him to suppress politically engaged student research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2356
Broader Connections
- Horkheimer blocked Habermas’s Habilitation to drive him out of the Institute
#corroborates(0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2359 - Horkheimer suppressed the Institute’s most successful empirical study by denying Habermas its institutional label
#complicates(0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2358 - Horkheimer’s postwar conservatism led him to suppress politically engaged student research
#corroborates(0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2356