The Institute institutionalized Benjamin’s work as funded French cultural-history research

Evidence

The Passagen project was formally included in the research sponsored by the Institute. In the Report of the Société Internationale de Recherches Sociales for 1936, Pollock mentioned Etudes sur l'histoire de la culture française' among other items under the heading Research Fellowships’. In the Institute’s second prospectus, published in 1938, Benjamin was listed as a research associate, with his specialist topic given as `aesthetics’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 215

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Institute funding of Benjamin made him the eventual guiding star of its dialectics project — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 211; The Institute formally sponsored Benjamin’s Paris arcades project as research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 796; Benjamin’s death converted unfinished Baudelaire notes into his bequest to the Institute — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 216
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Institute funding of Benjamin made him the eventual guiding star of its dialectics project — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 211; The Institute formally sponsored Benjamin’s Paris arcades project as research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 796; Benjamin’s death converted unfinished Baudelaire notes into his bequest to the Institute — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 216