The Institut’s exile adjustment was primarily intellectual, not financial

Evidence

When problems did exist for Institut members, they were those of language and cultural adjustment, which plague any immigrant, but not of finances. The most difficult intellectual adjustment, as we shall see later, involved coordinating the philosophically grounded social research practiced by the Institut with the rigorous antispeculative bias of American social science. The use of American empirical techniques that its members learned in exile was an important lesson brought back to Germany after the war, but these skills had not been acquired without considerable hesitancy. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 181

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader story of European refugee social scientists clashing with American empirical positivism; also the later post-war re-export of American empirical methods into German sociology. — connects to: Exile mutilates the intellectual even when it spares direct coordination — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 29; Escape from Freedom fulfilled the Institute’s 1938 research programme outside its framework — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1125

Broader Connections

• Exile mutilates the intellectual even when it spares direct coordination #expands (0.85) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 29