Horkheimer promised natural-science accuracy for measuring unconscious anti-Semitism via a studio-made film.
Evidence
If the Committee would either have helped my efforts to get the picture from one of the big studios, or spent the
10,000 or15,000 for which it could have been produced half a year ago, it would now have in its possession a precise scientific instrument with which to test the increase or decrease of conscious and unconscious antisemitism with the accuracy to which we are used in natural sciences. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 387
Categorization
- QUESTION: Did the film ever get made, and did anyone test its claimed natural-science accuracy? Worth chasing in the archives.
- XREF: connects to: The Institute developed an experimental film as a scientific instrument for measuring anti-Semitism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 387; Horkheimer claimed the Institute already led research on anti-Semitism measurement while borrowing mass-media methods. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 387; Horkheimer sought scientific proof that anti-Semitism is a symptom of hostility to democracy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1527 (+2 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Institute developed an experimental film as a scientific instrument for measuring anti-Semitism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 387; Horkheimer claimed the Institute already led research on anti-Semitism measurement while borrowing mass-media methods. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 387; Horkheimer sought scientific proof that anti-Semitism is a symptom of hostility to democracy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1527 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Horkheimer planned empirical propaganda research as cover to fund long-term theoretical work.
#complicates(0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1566