Horkheimer scrapped a planned publication after deeming its research papers inadequate

Evidence

To bring the group study on West German political awareness to a conclusion at last, he organized a seminar for the end of April 1953 at which papers on the results of the project would be presented to an audience consisting mainly of civil servants from Hesse and Frankfurt. The papers could then, Horkheimer thought, be published as a book without too much academic responsibility for them being involved, with the complete text being sent as a mimeograph to selected individuals and institutions. But he was so dissatisfied with the papers that he abandoned the plan for a book and instead revived the plan to restart the journal, where the inadequacy of research reports could be balanced out by the high quality of other contributions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1962

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer blocked publication of the Institute’s student politics study — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2356; Horkheimer’s plan for interdisciplinary economic collaboration failed for lack of capable collaborators — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1318; Horkheimer rejected publishable, argument-rich books as mere intellectual fireworks — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1325 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer suppressed Fromm’s worker study as both too Marxist and not Marxist enough #exemplifies (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 195
• Horkheimer rejected pure philosophical work in favor of expert-assisted collaborative research #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1329
• Horkheimer’s contempt for systematic empirical analysis undermined collaboration with Kirchheimer #complicates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 976