Material security lets thinkers produce harder, less marketable work.

Evidence

It was not until 1944 that Horkheimer, by contrast, who had been relieved of the need to struggle for his existence, brought out the Philosophical Fragments, written in collaboration with Adorno. This was a difficult theoretical text which was published privately in mimeograph, and thus restricted to an extremely small readership. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 286

Categorization

• DEFINE: Identifies the Philosophical Fragments — the privately mimeographed, restricted-readership text that became Dialectic of Enlightenment.
• XREF: Ties to the pattern that pure, difficult theory depended on patronage rather than market success. — connects to: Securing a good means protecting it, not maximizing its likelihood — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 372; Atrophied imagination keeps people chained to work they no longer need — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 277; Mechanized work frees the worker’s brain rather than mummifying it — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1139 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Securing a good means protecting it, not maximizing its likelihood — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 372; Atrophied imagination keeps people chained to work they no longer need — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 277; Mechanized work frees the worker’s brain rather than mummifying it — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1139 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Securing a good means protecting it, not maximizing its likelihood #complicates (0.72) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 372