Pension-claim disputes split Horkheimer and Adorno from longtime collaborator Lowenthal.

Evidence

Lowenthal was still alivebut during the 1950s Horkheimer and Adorno had broken with him as a result of his attempts to claim pension rights from the Institute. Up till 1956, Lowenthal had lived in the Institute’s old New York office, which was kept going until the end of the 1960s by Horkheimer’s former secretary in New York, Alice Maier, since Horkheimer wanted to maintain a base in the USA. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 689

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the book’s pattern of post-exile financial insecurity reaching every Institute staff member. — connects to: Horkheimer repeatedly broke promises that Lowenthal could join the California theorists. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 323; Only Lowenthal and Fromm among Institute members retained any Jewish religious engagement — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 164
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer repeatedly broke promises that Lowenthal could join the California theorists. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 323; Only Lowenthal and Fromm among Institute members retained any Jewish religious engagement — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 164