Horkheimer measured his planned work against Husserl’s decades-long labor rather than contemporary academic output.

Evidence

There is no doubt that the studies which I am undertaking now and which are really the fulfillment of what we have dreamt to be our raison d’être, when we were young, cannot be achieved in one or two years. I am not struggling to make a book like Neumann did and all the others who, under the pressure of necessity and competition, turn out the more or less instructive literature of today. Husserl needed 10 years to write his Logische Untersuchungen and another 13 years to publish his Introduction in pure Phenomenology [sic], not to speak of more famous works on philosophy and related subjects, and if you take my poor forces, education and routine into consideration, you will appreciate what I am in for. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 345

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows Horkheimer’s self-understanding of his project as ‘the fulfillment of what we have dreamt to be our raison d’être’ — a statement of the Institute’s founding ambition.
• SHARE: The Neumann jab — ‘under the pressure of necessity and competition’ — would delight anyone who tracks Institute infighting over Franz Neumann.
• XREF: connects to: Talking about planned work repeatedly substitutes for actually producing it in Horkheimer’s later career. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1683
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Talking about planned work repeatedly substitutes for actually producing it in Horkheimer’s later career. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1683

Broader Connections

• Talking about planned work repeatedly substitutes for actually producing it in Horkheimer’s later career. #complicates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1683