The Institute divided research labor by discipline under shared theoretical guidelines

Evidence

In his inaugural lecture, Horkheimer had formulated, as a general demand and as the programme of the Institute, the principle that philosophers, sociologists, economists, historians and psychologists should unite in lasting collaboration and, in the field of social studies, should provide for a continuing dialectical fusion of philosophical theory and specific scientific practice. This was no longer possible for one individual alone. What was required here was not collaboration between those who were only philosophers and those who were only scientific specialists, but collaboration between theoreticians, each of whom was especially familiar with one of the scientific disciplines, philosophy being one of these. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 727 (#expands, via linked claim)

Where it seems to go beyond this discourse, as in its logical purifications, only the skeleton remains of the same universe—a ghost much more ghostly than those which the analysis combats. If philosophy is more than an occupation, it shows the grounds which made discourse a mutilated and deceptive universe. To leave this task to a colleague in the Sociology or Psychology Department is to make the established division of academic labor into a methodological principle. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 701 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Handing critique off to sociology makes academic division of labor a methodological principle — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 701; Interdisciplinary social research requires theoreticians each expert in one discipline, not generalists — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 727; Interdisciplinary theory required scholars each expert in a scientific field plus philosophy

Broader Connections

• Interdisciplinary social research requires theoreticians each expert in one discipline, not generalists #expands (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 727
• Interdisciplinary theory required scholars each expert in a scientific field plus philosophy #expands (0.90)
• Handing critique off to sociology makes academic division of labor a methodological principle #expands (0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 701