Horkheimer rebuffed Marcuse’s bid to resume Institute collaboration by citing the anti-Semitism project’s demands

Evidence

What Marcuse was asking indirectly was whether, once his Secret Service work was finished, he could once again become an associate of the Institute and Horkheimer; whether he might not be able to carry on with the working arrangement which had been inopportunely broken off in 1942. Horkheimer’s indirectly negative answer to this indirect question was that everything on the west coast was continuing on a regular basis, he and Adorno were devoting almost the whole day to the anti-Semitism project, and even Pollock and Felix Weil were being called in to help with it in part. This was as much as to say that for the meantime there was no room for theoretical work, and certainly not for collaborative theoretical work on a large scale. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1653

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier chapters tracing the Institute’s wartime relocation to the west coast and the founding of the anti-Semitism project. — connects to: Horkheimer told both Marcuse and Adorno each was his intended collaborator — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1092

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer told both Marcuse and Adorno each was his intended collaborator #complicates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1092