The Frankfurt School’s institutional forms shifted across three distinct eras and three geographic sites

Evidence

This book deals with the half-century of the prehistory and history of the Frankfurt School'. The locations for the story: Frankfurt am Main, Geneva, New York and Los Angeles, Frankfurt am Main. The contexts of the story against the background of its times: the Weimar Republic with its twilight character’ and its transition to Nazism; the New Deal, the war period and the McCarthy era in the USA; restoration against the background of anti-communism; and the period of protest and reform in West Germany. The various institutional forms adopted in the course of its history: an independent research foundation as a base for Marxist research critical of society; a remnant of the Institute as a collective presence which guaranteed protection for private scholars; and an Institute dependent on state research funds or contracts as the background for a critical sociology and philosophy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 21

Categorization

• XREF: Frames the whole institutional history — connects to prior material on the Institute for Social Research’s funding structures and its American exile years. — connects to: The Frankfurt School is a retrospective construction mixing two distinct phases — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 10; New archival material has complicated the Frankfurt School’s historical narrative — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 31; The Frankfurt School revised its theories in response to the changing postwar social reality — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 765 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The Frankfurt School revised its theories in response to the changing postwar social reality #expands (0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 765
• The Institute’s return to Frankfurt transformed it from isolated enclave to mainstream intellectual force. #expands (0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 872
• New archival material has complicated the Frankfurt School’s historical narrative #complicates (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 31
• The Frankfurt School’s scholarly moment ended but its reception lay ahead #qualifies (0.75)
• Adorno’s arrival displaced Fromm and changed the Frankfurt School’s intellectual tone #expands (0.70) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 353