Horkheimer treated accommodation to industry as temporary camouflage

Evidence

Horkheimer’s view was: I don’t agree with industrial sociology; are we supposed to support that now as well? At this period, in which he was on the one hand appearing as a Critical Theorist and on the other trying to make the Institute’s work palatable to business and administrative circles, Horkheimer may have thought that during the setting up of the new Institute this was still a good form of camouflage but that, one day, there would be no need to take it seriously. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1860

Categorization

• XREF: Recalls the later split with Marcuse in the 1960s when the Institute’s accommodationist stance finally surfaced — and resonates with Adorno’s own deep hostility to ‘administrative social research’ flagged here. — connects to: Horkheimer treated marketing the Institute to business as temporary camouflage.; Horkheimer publicly advertised social research as a tool for industrial productivity — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1855; Horkheimer treated the Institute’s business-friendly turn as temporary camouflage for critical theory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 458

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer publicly advertised social research as a tool for industrial productivity #exemplifies (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1855