The Institut’s scholarly solidarity deliberately modeled an ideal future brotherly society

Evidence

It had been the intent of the founding members to create a community of scholars whose solidarity would serve as a microcosmic foretaste of the brotherly society of the future. The Zeitschrio, as mentioned earlier, helped cement the sense of group identity; and the common experience of forced exile and regrouping abroad added considerably to this feeling. Within the Institut itself, a still smaller group had coalesced around Horkheimer, consisting of Pollock, Lowenthal, Adorno, Marcuse, and Fromm. It is really their work, rooted in the central tradition of European philosophy, open to contemporary empirical techniques, and addressed to current social questions, that formed the core of the Institut’s achievement. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 161

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s earlier account of the Institute’s founding ethos (Weil/Pollock persuading the elder Weil) and to the community-of-scholars ideal. — connects to: The Institute was founded through financial patronage and a shared critical stance toward society. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 67; Social-philosophical motives drove the Institute’s later openness to metaphysics. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 69; Philosophers both reflect their historical milieu and shape future institutions — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 32 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Philosophers both reflect their historical milieu and shape future institutions #exemplifies (0.82) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 32
• Universal moral maxims serve a cosmopolitan intellectual stratum’s civilizing project #exemplifies (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1331
• An imagined community only solidifies when educational and administrative pilgrimages coincide #expands (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 472
• The concept of society emerged as the name for a newly invented moral order #exemplifies (0.78) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 86
• Scholars are united by civility and conversation, not by a common ground #exemplifies (0.72) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 333