The Institute lacked any living member capable of expounding its own theory.

Evidence

Horkheimer wanted the complete German translation to appear as an Institute publication at all costs. Adorno had a high opinion of Walter Dirks’s report on research into The Consequences of Denazification' (Die Folgen der Entnazifizierung’). In his first ideas on a new journal, Horkheimer himself had suggested authors such as Georges Friedmann or Hadley Cantril as writers of `representative articles by friends of the Institute’. Bruno Bettelheim was respected by both of the Institute’s directors. But there was no one to represent their own theory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 495

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Conflicting drives for theory and self-respect made the Institute drift directionless through fundraising — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 272; Institute directors concealed their theoretical aims rather than confidently defending them — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 379
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Conflicting drives for theory and self-respect made the Institute drift directionless through fundraising — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 272; Institute directors concealed their theoretical aims rather than confidently defending them — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 379

Broader Connections

• Institute directors concealed their theoretical aims rather than confidently defending them #complicates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 379