Nazi racial persecution scattered Jewish philosophers who became founders of new disciplines

Evidence

While Adorno was earning his living in Los Angeles with the astrology project, Horkheimer was getting into greater and greater difficulties with the Institute in Frankfurt. Helmuth Plessner was travelling from Göttingen to Frankfurt two or three days a week to stand in for Adorno in part. Plessner, three years older than Horkheimer, had lost his job as a teacher of philosophy in Cologne in 1933 because he was Jewish, and he emigrated to the Netherlands in 1934. In 1939 he became the first professor of sociology at a Dutch state university, with an endowed chair at the University of Groningen. He survived the German invasion in the underground, and finally, at the age of sixty, was appointed to a new chair for sociology and philosophy at Göttingen. With his book on The Stages of Organic Life and Man, 38 published in 1928, Plessner had become, alongside Scheler, one of the founders of modern philosophical anthropology. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 483

Categorization

• XREF: Plessner’s philosophical anthropology alongside Scheler parallels the Institute’s own exile diaspora documented earlier in this history, and connects to Scheler’s role in founding modern philosophical anthropology. — connects to: Psychoanalysis was born from the migration and racism experiences of Jewish refugee scholars — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1248; Nazi-era refugee scholars transplanted German Orientalist philology into modern Israel — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists…, 489
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Psychoanalysis was born from the migration and racism experiences of Jewish refugee scholars — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1248; Nazi-era refugee scholars transplanted German Orientalist philology into modern Israel — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists…, 489