The exiled Institute cultivated American scholarly ties to legitimize itself

Evidence

It was thanks to these contacts that Fromm was able to arrange a contribution by Margaret Mead for the ZfS, which was welcome evidence for the Horkheimer circle of the Institute’s collaboration with well-known United States scholars. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 3317

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on the earlier chapters about the Institute using empirical apparatus and US collaborators (Lynd, MacIver) as protective screen in America. — connects to: The exiled Frankfurt Institute isolated itself from American academic life while resenting its marginalization. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1045; The Institute concluded it needed an official American institutional identity — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 578; Former Institute associates were systematically held at distance and dispersed into American academia — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1637

Broader Connections

• The exiled Frankfurt Institute isolated itself from American academic life while resenting its marginalization. #contradicts (0.88) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1045
• The Institute concluded it needed an official American institutional identity #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 578