Only the returning exceptions found welcome in a purged, restored Frankfurt academy

Evidence

When Horkheimer, Adorno and Pollock settled in Frankfurt with their wives and began to expand the `German outpost’, they saw themselves as Jews, as left-wing intellectuals and as critical sociologists in an environment which had been more or less completely purged of people like themselves, and in which all the signs had long since been pointing clearly to the restoration of the old order. The unique symbiosis represented by German-Jewish culture had been irreversibly destroyed. Apart from Horkheimer and Adorno, none of the distinguished lecturers or professors from the heyday of Frankfurt Universitythe last years of the Weimar Republicreturned. Horkheimer, Adorno and Pollock could count on being met with patience and good intentions precisely because they were, and remained, the exceptions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 455

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier Frankfurt School chapters on the Nazi purges that removed a third of Frankfurt’s university teachers — this is the postwar sequel, almost nobody came back. — connects to: The term Frankfurt School emerged only after the Institut’s exile — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 2144; Frankfurt University’s invitation to the exiled Institute avoided restoring its property or library — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1709; Postwar Frankfurt University saw hostile encounters between returnees and émigrés — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1744 (+2 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The destruction of the German-Jewish cultural symbiosis framed as irreversible, with the survivors tolerated only because they were the rare exceptions, is a durable structural point about how restoration absorbs its critics.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The term Frankfurt School emerged only after the Institut’s exile — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 2144; Frankfurt University’s invitation to the exiled Institute avoided restoring its property or library — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1709; Postwar Frankfurt University saw hostile encounters between returnees and émigrés — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1744 (+2 more)