New School exiles rejected the Institute’s work on ideological grounds

Evidence

Hans Speier, also an anti-Freudian, had written a condescending, patronizing review of Studies on Authority and the Family for Social Research in 1936. Emil Lederer, who was particularly favoured by Johnson, and up to his death in 1939 played a leading role among the émigrés at the New School, was an anti-Marxist, and even an opponent of the New Deal. Lederer sent a manuscript on `Imperialism’ by Wolfgang Hallgarten, who was considered to be a Marxist, back to France unopened. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 276

Categorization

• SHARE: The detail of Lederer returning Hallgarten’s Marxism manuscript unopened is a niche institutional anecdote for a reader deep in Frankfurt School history.
• XREF: connects to: Institute critics rejected psychoanalytic ideology readings that ignored material class conditions; Scholars from disenfranchised communities reject detached scholarship for committed praxis; Exile politics made the Institute downplay Benjamin’s Marxism and theology even in his memorial — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 333 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Institute critics rejected psychoanalytic ideology readings that ignored material class conditions; Scholars from disenfranchised communities reject detached scholarship for committed praxis; Exile politics made the Institute downplay Benjamin’s Marxism and theology even in his memorial — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 333 (+5 more)