The émigré Institute had shrunk to a vestige by 1944

Evidence

The Institute was only a vestige of what it had once been, and in taking on the labour project it had overextended itself. As Gurland, Massing, Pollock and Lowenthal were busy with the study on workers in the time left over from their part-time work in Washington, Horkheimer was, to begin with, left fairly helpless in his office in the AJC building in New York. He was dazed by the bustle there, trying laboriously to put together a staff, and desperately thinking out a programme of work which would satisfy both the expectation that there would be visible activity and short-term results and his own need for long-term theoretical work. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1564

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off the running theme of the Institute’s decline and Horkheimer’s private-theory priority (ch37, ch39). — connects to: The Horkheimer circle had shrunk to four insiders by the mid-1940s — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1636

Broader Connections

• The Horkheimer circle had shrunk to four insiders by the mid-1940s #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1636