Horkheimer insisted economic and political analysis remain central despite collaborators’ disagreements.
Evidence
Actually, Fritz [Pollock] and yourself really ought to be here at the end of next month to start on the economic and political parts, and then for the next six months we ought to do nothing else night and day. Don’t believe for a moment that we can shelve the questions of the economic significance of what is approaching, or questions of the forms of political resistance, simply because Fritz, Grossmann and Gurland can’t agree or because every sort of hindrance is put in the way of free discussion of questions of that sort. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 337
Categorization
- XREF: Ties directly to the Institute’s internal split over state capitalism (Pollock vs. Grossmann vs. Gurland) and Horkheimer’s resistance to shelving economics. — connects to: Horkheimer’s planned book remained ambiguous about how interdisciplinary and economic analysis fit together. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1315; Horkheimer joined the dialectics project to situate his critiques of positivism and bourgeois anthropology. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 349; Horkheimer insisted anti-Semitism research must analyze Jewish psychology and capitalism together — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 390
- SHARE: The ‘night and day for six months’ line is a vivid artifact for anyone deep in Frankfurt School institutional history.
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer’s planned book remained ambiguous about how interdisciplinary and economic analysis fit together. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1315; Horkheimer joined the dialectics project to situate his critiques of positivism and bourgeois anthropology. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 349; Horkheimer insisted anti-Semitism research must analyze Jewish psychology and capitalism together — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 390
Broader Connections
- Horkheimer’s planned book remained ambiguous about how interdisciplinary and economic analysis fit together.
#complicates(0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1315