Horkheimer treated the Foundation’s money as an instrument of his own theoretical persona.

Evidence

Since Horkheimer ultimately saw Weil’s Foundation as the material basis for promoting a theory of society of which he himself was the principal incarnation, the use of the Foundation for shared purposes on a united basis was impossible. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 283

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the pattern of Horkheimer suppressing work (Fromm’s study, the labor anti-Semitism study) that didn’t fit his personal program. — connects to: Fromm’s financial independence forced Horkheimer to treat him as a theoretical equal.; Shrinking endowments drove Horkheimer to secure Institute assets for himself alone. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 283; Horkheimer equated his own theoretical person with the Foundation’s social-theory purpose — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1087 (+6 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: Coins a striking formulation — theory with a single ‘principal incarnation’ — that captures how a school of thought can collapse into a single thinker’s property.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Fromm’s financial independence forced Horkheimer to treat him as a theoretical equal.; Shrinking endowments drove Horkheimer to secure Institute assets for himself alone. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 283; Horkheimer equated his own theoretical person with the Foundation’s social-theory purpose — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1087 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer treated the Weil Foundation as his personal vehicle for social theory #corroborates (0.98) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1087
• Horkheimer equated his own theoretical person with the Foundation’s social-theory purpose #corroborates (0.97) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1087