Horkheimer suppressed German republication of Dialectic of Enlightenment despite student demand.

Evidence

Horkheimer tended to identify the student movement with anti-Americanism and pro-totalitarianism, and rejected it along with the Vietnamese liberation struggle. But, ironically, respect for him grew as the student movement became progressively radicalized, since some of his early writings turned out to be a goldmine for quotations that suited the current mood. Of course, this gave him no satisfaction at all. At the beginning of the 1960s he had agreed only to an Italian edition of Dialectic of Enlightenment, in which it had been possible to make some slight changes. He refused permission for republication in German, which the publishers Fischer had already planned for 1961 with a large printrun. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2635

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: intellectual suppression by an author fearful of how their own work will be weaponized by radical readers — Horkheimer refusing German republication while permitting a slightly-edited Italian edition.
• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer suppressed Benjamin’s theses’ leading placement for tactical political reasons. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1300; Horkheimer censored democratic language from the student study for fear of funders — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2355; Horkheimer’s postwar conservatism led him to suppress politically engaged student research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2356