The Institute’s interdisciplinary program was undercut by refusing specialists full employment

Evidence

The personnel policy followed by the directors of the Institute, which was extraordinary in view of their programme for an interdisciplinary social theory, was evident in their behaviour towards these two figures. The Institute’s directors made no effort to recruit the assistance of a specialist historian; 209 nor did they offer full-time employment to Neumann or Kirchheimer, who were qualified academic specialists in law, government and politics. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 245

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interests in institutional sociology of knowledge — how research programs fail to match their own staffing. — connects to: The Institute’s directors declined to hire legal and political specialists full-time. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 918
• QUESTION: Why did Horkheimer and the directors withhold posts from Neumann and Kirchheimer when they were exactly the specialists the program required?
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Institute’s directors declined to hire legal and political specialists full-time. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 918

Broader Connections

• The Institute’s directors declined to hire legal and political specialists full-time. #exemplifies (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 918