Institute members endured chronic precarity and indecision during the Columbia negotiations

Evidence

The Columbia business dragged on. Marcuse only managed to work on his article sporadically, since he was expecting just a short stay in New York, was sometimes spending the nights on a sofa at the Institute, and was constantly under pressure from a vacillating Horkheimer either to return to the west coast or else to stay on in New York. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1233

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Institutional gatekeeping roles complicate even sincere claims of community commitment; Internal bureaucracy and competing offers stripped the Institute of its empiricists. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2386; Horkheimer publicly courted Columbia and foundations while privately planning permanent departure. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1149 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer publicly courted Columbia and foundations while privately planning permanent departure. #corroborates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1149
• Internal bureaucracy and competing offers stripped the Institute of its empiricists. #corroborates (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2386
• Critical Theory met empirical communications research at Columbia in 1941 #corroborates (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 634
• Institutional gatekeeping roles complicate even sincere claims of community commitment #corroborates (0.72)