Refugee theorists had few options because American institutions were growing hostile.

Evidence

My theoretical and political attitudes hold out little prospect of long-term employment at an American institution, particularly since the growing fascist tendencies here, as you rightly always stress yourself, reduce the prospects for people such as ourselves more seriously than ever. I did not look for another position at an earlier stage, because both you yourself and Pollock frequently informed me, and others as well, that I was a permanent member of the Institute. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 250

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the Frankfurt circle’s broader anxieties about America’s illiberal drift and its dependence on precarious émigré funding. — connects to: French intellectuals resented German refugee scholars’ work ethic and were less welcoming than Americans — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 177
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: French intellectuals resented German refugee scholars’ work ethic and were less welcoming than Americans — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 177

Broader Connections

• French intellectuals resented German refugee scholars’ work ethic and were less welcoming than Americans #complicates (0.72) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 177