Institutional dependence on sponsorship tempted Critical Theorists into self-censorship.

Evidence

Now that the Institute depended on financial sponsorship, was this becoming an excuse for them to proceed more cautiously than was necessary in their professorial and intellectual capacities in order to keep the Institute in existence, instead of offering their support to Critical Theorists? — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 457

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Exiled scholars practiced drastic self-censorship about their host country. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 255; In American exile, funding critical theory required marketing it to foundations and private patrons — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 272; Sustained institutional self-censorship and lost staff narrowed Critical Theory’s analytical scope. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 425 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Exiled scholars practiced drastic self-censorship about their host country. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 255; In American exile, funding critical theory required marketing it to foundations and private patrons — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 272; Sustained institutional self-censorship and lost staff narrowed Critical Theory’s analytical scope. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 425 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Financial sponsorship may have made the Institute’s directors self-censor #corroborates (0.96) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1856