The Frankfurt School’s criticism of émigré corruption preceded its own industry funding
Evidence
At the time when it was still planned to restart the journal, and while the finishing touches were being added to the group study on West German political awareness, something happened which seemed like the first serious lapse on the part of the Institute of Social Research: it accepted a contract from the Mannesmann corporation. During the 1940s the Institute’s directors had alleged more or less bluntly that there was corruption among other émigrés resulting from their lack of material and psychological independence, and declared that research foundations had a highly developed capacity to distinguish between conformist and nonconformist academics. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2053
Categorization
- XREF: Irony parallel: the Institute’s earlier critique of compromised émigrés mirrors Gramscian/institutionalist discussions of intellectual autonomy and funding, and connects to the later 1960s critique of the Institute by its own students. — connects to: Founded-board dynamics and suspicion stalked the émigré Institute’s grant applications — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1150; New archival material has complicated the Frankfurt School’s historical narrative — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 31; Jewish defense agencies helped fund the Frankfurt School’s anti-Semitism research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1478 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Jewish defense agencies helped fund the Frankfurt School’s anti-Semitism research
#qualifies(0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1478 - New archival material has complicated the Frankfurt School’s historical narrative
#complicates(0.70) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 31 - Postwar Frankfurt University saw hostile encounters between returnees and émigrés
#exemplifies(0.70) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1744