Marcuse’s militancy alienated him from his former Institute colleagues.

Evidence

Despite the principled support he extended to his controversial former student and Communist Party leader, Angela Davis, he was denounced for having abandoned the proletariat as agent of revolution. Marcuse, it soon became evident to me, was equally a source of uneasiness for most of his former Institut colleagues who were alarmed by his outspoken political militancy. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 4

Categorization

• XREF: Foreshadows the internal tensions within the exiled Institute that the book will trace — Marcuse as outlier among the émigrés. — connects to: Marcuse’s path to New Left celebrity bypassed the Institute entirely — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 854; Lacking institutional prestige freed Marcuse from presenting a responsible public face — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 864; Marcuse’s Reason and Revolution was pursued partly to ease his departure from the Institute — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1092 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Marcuse’s path to New Left celebrity bypassed the Institute entirely #corroborates (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 854
• Lacking institutional prestige freed Marcuse from presenting a responsible public face #expands (0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 864