Horkheimer pursued a conventional academic career unlike his Frankfurt School peers

Evidence

The team in Berkeley is certainly unique. The leader of the group is a gentile professor of psychology. The two assistants are exceptionally well-trained psychologists with a good knowledge of statistical and sociological methods. If at any time I go to San Francisco in order to organize with these friends an experimental series on a larger basis, we shall be able to publish a book on the analysis and the measurement of antisemitism. Such a book would be a new approach, not only with regard to our specific problem, but to the study of social phenomena in general. It would constitute what we propagated in our first pamphlets after our arrival in this country: the bringing together of certain European concepts with American methods. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1520 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer sought to fuse European critical theory with American empirical methods — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1520; Frankfurt’s conventional academic center disciplined its brilliant outsiders.

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer sought to fuse European critical theory with American empirical methods #expands (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1520