The Institute published its most successful study anonymously under Horkheimer’s pressure

Evidence

Students and Politics was not published in the series Frankfurt Contributions to Sociology', and not even by the same publisher, the Europäischer Verlagsanstalt. Habermas's introduction thus suffered the same fate as Benjamin's introductory section to The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’. … In 1961 Students and Politics came out with the publishers Luchterhand in the series `Sociological Texts’, of which Heinz Maus was a co-founder. It contained no mention of the Institute of Social Research, except in the remarks on research methods in the appendix. The Institute of Social Research, whose identity Horkheimer saw as being threatened by Habermas, remained virtually anonymous in the book, and thus denied itself in the very publication that was to become the most successful empirical study the re-established Institute ever produced. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2358

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  • XREF: connects to: Horkheimer suppressed the Institute’s most successful empirical study by denying Habermas its institutional label — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2358

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