The Institute’s first English book omitted all mention of the United States

Evidence

In 1939 Punishment and Social Structure by Rusche and Kirchheimer was publishedthe Institute’s first book since Studies on Authority and the Family, and its very first publication in English. In his foreword, Horkheimer presented it as the `beginning of a new American series’ of Institute publications. The fact that the host country, the United States, was never mentioned at all in the chapters on the twentieth century, which according to the preface were all writtenalong with the introductionby Kirchheimer, was clearly the result of drastic caution. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 967

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier theme of the Institute’s empirical and publishing efforts functioning as a protective screen for theory while in American exile.
• SEED: An essay angle: how exiled scholars self-censor host-country critique — the tactical absence of ‘the United States’ from Punishment and Social Structure as a case study in refugee authorship under precarious status.