Institutional disintegration resulted partly from the scattering of exiled scholars

Evidence

These were the physical conditions forming the background to the Institute’s work. How had it come about that continuous collaboration between various specialists' had become a phrase that could only be used with considerable reservations in connection with the Institute, and that the fusion of constructive and empirical methods’ was taking place to a lesser extent than before? What was behind it? Was it the result of doubts about the continuing significance of large-scale collective research? Was it the result of disorientation among people in exile? Was it merely a pause for reorientation? — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1029

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: did Horkheimer abandon empirical research by choice (doctrine) or because exile logistics made it structurally impossible? The chapter never fully resolves which.
• XREF: connects to: Exile intensified hierarchy and dependency within the Institute. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 589; Fascism shattered a school of historians whose members dispersed into exile or regime service; Exile mutilates the intellectual even when it spares direct coordination — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 29 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Fascism shattered a school of historians whose members dispersed into exile or regime service #exemplifies (0.95)
• Exile mutilates the intellectual even when it spares direct coordination #expands (0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 29
• Early modernist exile retained tragic intentionality that postmodern exile lacks #qualifies (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 234