Institute funding of Benjamin made him the eventual guiding star of its dialectics project

Evidence

In Benjamin, Horkheimer was supporting the man who, when the dialectics project became a reality, was to turn out to be virtually its guiding star. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 211

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces the idea that intellectual milestones were collective achievements funded and steered by institutions, not lone geniuses. — connects to: Benjamin joined the Institute’s staff after his Passagen-Werk gained financial support — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 661; The Institute institutionalized Benjamin’s work as funded French cultural-history research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 215; The Institute formally sponsored Benjamin’s Paris arcades project as research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 796
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Benjamin joined the Institute’s staff after his Passagen-Werk gained financial support — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 661; The Institute institutionalized Benjamin’s work as funded French cultural-history research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 215; The Institute formally sponsored Benjamin’s Paris arcades project as research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 796