Practical émigré logistics and SPSS editing stalled Horkheimer’s dialectics project.

Evidence

Schoenberg had been living there since 1934, a composer without a public, but with a professorship at the University of California at Los Angeles where the students mostly studied music as a minor subject. Horkheimer, too, in spite of all his reserve and `splendid isolation’, now formed part of this colony of émigrés. The arrival of the Marcuse family in May and June and arranging accommodation for them, Pollock’s arrival in July, and other matters such as preparing the articles for the SPSS issue on state capitalism, caused disruptions. Work on the dialectics project was restricted to preparatory studies, as before: planning and taking notes. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 314

Categorization

• XREF: Ties the Institute’s institutional geography (its move to Pacific Palisades) directly to the delayed genesis of Dialectic of Enlightenment — a key causal link for the book’s later chapters. — connects to: Émigré arrivals and institutional tasks constantly interrupted the dialectics project. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1214; Horkheimer halted the SPSS because the journal itself had become a fatal concession — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 321
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Émigré arrivals and institutional tasks constantly interrupted the dialectics project. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1214; Horkheimer halted the SPSS because the journal itself had become a fatal concession — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 321

Broader Connections

• Émigré arrivals and institutional tasks constantly interrupted the dialectics project. #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1214