Horkheimer simultaneously fantasized withdrawal from institutions and pursued maximum institutional status.

Evidence

It was the old game: at the same time as he was holding out to himself the image of being able to work in isolation in a humble scholarly existence without an institute, without any contact with students, an audience or the system, he was trying to achieve as much institutional and establishment status and as much security, influence and recognition as possible. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 422

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Encapsulates the constitutive tension of the Frankfurt School’s exile existence: radical critique financed by, and seeking, establishment power.
• XREF: Connects to the earlier documented pattern of Horkheimer treating accommodation to industry as temporary camouflage while courting funders and state authorities. — connects to: Horkheimer wavered between theoretician and administrator, independence and official security.; Horkheimer simultaneously pursued disengaged isolation and maximum institutional establishment status — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1706; Horkheimer maintained a self-image of scholarly isolation while seeking maximum institutional influence — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1706 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer wavered between theoretician and administrator, independence and official security.; Horkheimer simultaneously pursued disengaged isolation and maximum institutional establishment status — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1706; Horkheimer maintained a self-image of scholarly isolation while seeking maximum institutional influence — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1706 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer simultaneously pursued disengaged isolation and maximum institutional establishment status #expands (0.97) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1706
• Horkheimer maintained a self-image of scholarly isolation while seeking maximum institutional influence #expands (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1706