The Institute’s name misled American funders about its true nature

Evidence

We must appear to these people [at Columbia] as what we are: individuals, each of whom is following his own theoretical ideas, but who admittedly have a mutual influence over one another and collaborate with one another, as may happen with the anti-Semitism question, for example. The concept of the Institute as we see it corresponds in this country more to that of an endowment or foundation than that of an institute. As we encouraged this misunderstanding ourselves, partly out of courtesy and partly in our own interest, we should now see to it, if the various negotiations fail, that it is fully cleared up, to avoid any conflict of this sort recurring in the future. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1231

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The name ‘Institute’ misrepresented the Frankfurt group’s humanities focus to American empiricists.; The Institute’s name misled Americans about its true non-empirical mission. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1051

Broader Connections

• The Institute’s name misled Americans about its true non-empirical mission. #corroborates (1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1051