Marcuse’s devotion let Horkheimer exploit him as a goodwill extension of the Institute
Evidence
At the same time as the old plan to restart the journal was revived, Horkheimer took another step which seemed about to make a miracle come true: he asked Herbert Marcuse if he would come to Frankfurt. Contact between Horkheimer and Marcuse had never been broken off. Marcuse’s devotion to Horkheimer, who in his opinion still represented the only chance of doing theoretical work, had continued. This made it easy for Horkheimer to treat Marcuse in such a way as to keep his former assistant’s hopes up and make him a well-disposed extension of the Institute. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 486
Categorization
- XREF: Payoff of the earlier finding that Marcuse read Being and Time as supplying what Marxism lacked. — connects to: Marcuse’s American arrival transformed him into a grateful, loyal Institute insider — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 166; Financial pressure channeled Marcuse toward Columbia, where he was the Institute’s most respected member — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 318; Marcuse, Neumann, and Kirchheimer were deliberately held at arm’s length by Horkheimer. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 407 (+4 more)
- SEED: Angle: how the Frankfurt School’s “theoretical work” depended on the unpaid or underpaid loyalty of exile intellectuals kept permanently in reserve.
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Marcuse’s American arrival transformed him into a grateful, loyal Institute insider — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 166; Financial pressure channeled Marcuse toward Columbia, where he was the Institute’s most respected member — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 318; Marcuse, Neumann, and Kirchheimer were deliberately held at arm’s length by Horkheimer. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 407 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Horkheimer dismissed Marcuse’s fame as resting on cruder ideas
#complicates(0.71) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2748