Integration into an institution requires irrevocable material submission and self-surrender.

Evidence

But integration would mean, in this case as in others, first of all: making concessions, many, many concessions, offering material guarantees that subjection is being entered into honestly, and is lasting and irrevocable. Integration means surrendering oneself without regard to the consequences. That is why our efforts are hopeless, even with other research foundationsthe variety among them is only a pretence, and we should beware of calling attention to ourselves elsewhere. 36 The situation became even more complicated for Horkheimer and his closest associates when MacIver announced that he would support the incorporation of the Institute into Columbia University. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 301

Categorization

• QUESTION: The paragraph cuts off with an unglossed footnote marker 36 and an oddly joined word (‘foundationsthe’), worth checking against the print edition.
• XREF: connects to: Institutions begin as means to satisfy needs, then become ends in themselves. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 623; Gaining freedom paradoxically requires relinquishing some autonomy to rules.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Institutions begin as means to satisfy needs, then become ends in themselves. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 623; Gaining freedom paradoxically requires relinquishing some autonomy to rules.