The Frankfurt Institute enforced methodological uniformity from its outset.

Evidence

However that may be, in our Institute it seems to me that sharing the directorship, especially with individuals of other ideological or methodological viewpoints, is quite out of the question. It has been our intention here from the outset to maintain uniformity in the way we look at problems and go about solving them, and, so far as it lies in my power, this will in fact be carried through. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 87

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  • XREF: connects to: Horkheimer’s institutional dominance was baked into the Institut’s founding structure — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 109; The Frankfurt School’s institutional autonomy from party discipline enabled its theoretical innovations. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 93

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