Horkheimer sold the Institute’s research as both politically useful and methodologically superior.

Evidence

What Horkheimer was emphasizing here was not only the practical relevance of what the Institute had achieved for the struggle against anti-Semitismits challenge to democrats to show their solidarity, its strengthening of the self-confidence of democrats and Jews, its combination of research and enlightenmentbut also the Institute’s competitiveness on the methodological and technical level. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 387

Categorization

• XREF: Links the Institute’s Critical Theory mission to its American funding relationship with the AJC. — connects to: Horkheimer steered the Institute toward empirical research while retaining theoretical control — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1495; Horkheimer consistently translated Marx’s transcendence of bourgeois science into interdisciplinary social research. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1901; Horkheimer marketed the Institute to sponsors as useful for the state — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1850
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer steered the Institute toward empirical research while retaining theoretical control — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1495; Horkheimer consistently translated Marx’s transcendence of bourgeois science into interdisciplinary social research. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1901; Horkheimer marketed the Institute to sponsors as useful for the state — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1850