Horkheimer rejected publishable, argument-rich books as mere intellectual fireworks

Evidence

But even you yourself cannot suppose that such a publication would be able to distinguish itself from literary fireworks of that sort except by using exotic theses. But what are theses! Ours, as the principal passages in a successful publication, would in the best case only add a new shade of colour to the bouquet of rockets. I am well aware how infinitely well-meaning you are. But must there really be no thinking left which is not merely looking for success? — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1325

Categorization

• XREF: Shows Horkheimer rejecting the very accessible, materially rich, reader-friendly academic book — an early statement of the Frankfurt School’s anti-publication, anti-success stance toward scholarship. — connects to: Horkheimer rejected Tillich’s plan for a material-rich argumentative work as literary fireworks — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1324; Horkheimer scrapped a planned publication after deeming its research papers inadequate — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1962; Horkheimer produced almost no serious theoretical work after Dialectic of Enlightenment. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1683

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer scrapped a planned publication after deeming its research papers inadequate #exemplifies (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1962