The Frankfurt School’s postwar German reception faced institutional delays despite strong media interest.

Evidence

From the very beginning, Horkheimer and Adorno could not complain that there was any lack of media interest in them. The Hessische Rundfunk (Hessian Broadcasting) wanted to record a discussion between the two of them on the Authoritarian Personality. The publishers of Frankfurter Hefte, a determinedly left-wing Catholic journal edited by Eugen Kogon and Walter Dirks, asked about translation rights. Merkur, Monat, Frankfurter Hefte, Neue Rundschau and Archiv für Philosophie all willingly published their articles. But the prospects of a position of philosophical power at the university seemed to be diminishing. The setting up of the Institute was not making any obvious progress. They were bothprimarily Horkheimer, but Adorno to some extent as wellstill torn between opting for the United States and opting for Frankfurt. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1741

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader returned-from-exile dynamics documented in earlier chapters about the Institute’s postwar re-establishment. — connects to: The Frankfurt School’s scholarly moment ended but its reception lay ahead; Frankfurt School theory resists phase division because its internal tensions drifted unsynchronized — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 21

Broader Connections

• The Frankfurt School’s scholarly moment ended but its reception lay ahead #expands (0.75)
• Frankfurt School theory resists phase division because its internal tensions drifted unsynchronized #complicates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 21