Personal cross-institutional ties muddled the émigré academic political map

Evidence

The personal friendship between Löwe and Horkheimer, Tillich’s connection with both institutions, and the fact that a communist such as Hanns Eisler was able to teach at the New School, led to impenetrable strategic confusion. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 276

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Group political visibility depends on physical or institutional markers rather than abstract status — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1926; State coherence is an artifice masking competing institutional interests — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1720; Familial political ties in elite networks shaped how the Lippmann colloquium agenda developed — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 375
  • yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Group political visibility depends on physical or institutional markers rather than abstract status — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1926; State coherence is an artifice masking competing institutional interests — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1720; Familial political ties in elite networks shaped how the Lippmann colloquium agenda developed — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 375

Broader Connections