Salaried Institute intellectuals like Marcuse faced income insecurity even in exile

Evidence

Marcuse moved into a rented house in Santa Monica, near Pacific Palisades. Horkheimer advised him to buy a house, but Marcuse was deterred by the financial obligations involvedand he had just been informed that his salary was to be cut and that his income for the future was uncertain. Marcuse had decided on a house in an area of Santa Monica in which many academics lived; Horkheimer found it excellently suited to the purposes of the Institute. He wrote to Pollock that Marcuse could set up `a proper office there, put a library together and hold seminars. Grossmann could even live there … We’ll have a nameplate put up: Institute of Social Research, Office Los Angeleseven though it’s in Santa Monica.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1227

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Exile intensified hierarchy and dependency within the Institute. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 589; Exile and financial insecurity destabilized every Institute staff member — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1091; Financial starvation and conscription fear drove Marcuse toward government work — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1241

Broader Connections

• Financial starvation and conscription fear drove Marcuse toward government work #expands (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1241