Some Institute associates ignored warnings and returned to Nazi Germany

Evidence

On July 13, 1949, the university chair that had been taken away sixteen years before was restored, with the slight change that it was now in sociology and philosophy rather than social philosophy. With Horkheimer, of course, came the lnstitut itself with its endowment and library. Its reestablishment, he would later recall, was not to be understood as acceptance of a Wiedergulmachung (compensation) by a repentant government, for nothing could make good what Germany had done. It was meant instead as a gesture to honor those Germans who had resisted Hitler by helping the Jews. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 847 (#expands, via linked claim)

Critical philosophy was able to do so thanks to the return from exile of Horkheimer and Adorno. None of the neopositivists who had fled ever returned to Germany. Up to the 1960s, neopositivismwhich had a monopoly position in the USA, Scandinavia and Hollandinfluenced the philosophical scene in German-speaking countries only indirectly. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 562 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Exiled critical theorists returned to Germany while exiled neopositivists never did — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 562; Postwar occupation controls barred Institute members from any return to Germany.; Horkheimer reframed the Institut’s 1949 return as honoring German resisters, not compensation — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 847

Broader Connections

• Postwar occupation controls barred Institute members from any return to Germany. #contradicts (0.85)
• Horkheimer reframed the Institut’s 1949 return as honoring German resisters, not compensation #expands (0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 847
• Exiled critical theorists returned to Germany while exiled neopositivists never did #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 562