Mitscherlich’s Institute application was quietly dropped through bureaucratic delay

Evidence

Horkheimer’s additional argument, that Mitscherlich had given a lecture at the Institute some time previously which `was a very diligent analytical explication of our Fifth Thesis on Anti-Semitism’, but that he had not actually heard Mitscherlich produce anything original, seemed to be merely a rationalization after this. Thanks to an unsuccessful attempt by the Institute’s two directors to dispatch Mitscherlich to Hacker in Los Angeles to act as a substitute for Adorno, the problem of his application was solved by the dilatory way it was dealt with. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1974

Categorization

• SEED: The ‘dilatory way of dealing with unwanted invitations’ as a bureaucratic tactic for avoiding conflict could anchor an article on institutional avoidance strategies.
• XREF: connects to: Positive American experiences delayed the Institute’s return to Germany — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 849

Broader Connections

• Positive American experiences delayed the Institute’s return to Germany #qualifies (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 849