The Dialectic of Enlightenment and the anti-Semitism study were mutually entangled projects.

Evidence

From now on, work on the west coast on the dialectics project and work on the east coast on the anti-Semitism project were intertwined, in such a way that it was no longer possible to say whether the Philosophical Fragments were the theoretical springboard for the anti-Semitism project or the anti-Semitism project was a gigantic, more or less distinct excursus on the Philosophical Fragments. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 380

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The mutual entailment of theory and empirical research here resists a clean summary — it reframes how the Dialectic of Enlightenment was actually produced.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s prior notes on the Institute’s AJC labor anti-Semitism study and its strategic self-censorship. — connects to: Adorno conceived theory and empirical research as mutually constitutive via the dialectical method. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 990; The Institute treated the anti-Semitism project as secondary to its real work — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 401
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno conceived theory and empirical research as mutually constitutive via the dialectical method. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 990; The Institute treated the anti-Semitism project as secondary to its real work — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 401

Broader Connections

• The Institute treated the anti-Semitism project as secondary to its real work #complicates (0.76) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 401