The Institute pursued anti-Semitism research independently of outside funding, titling it for American audiences.
Evidence
On the recommendation of one of the American advisers, the psychologically oriented political scientist Harold D. Lasswell, the project on Germany was ultimately given a specific title: `Cultural Aspects of National Socialism’. The project was submitted to the Rockefeller Foundation at the beginning of 1941 with a request for financial support. In the autumn of 1940 Horkheimer and Adorno decided that they wanted to pursue the topic of anti-Semitism whether or not it received financial support from outside research foundations. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 297
Categorization
- SHARE: Lasswell’s role in naming the Institute’s Germany project is a niche detail for anyone tracking émigré intellectual networks between Frankfurt and American social science.
- XREF: connects to: The anti-Semitism study’s scientific framing was a concession to its American audience. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 382; The Institute’s anti-Semitism study was jointly funded and split across two coasts. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 380; A funding contract with the AJC turned anti-Semitism into an explicit research topic. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 381 (+3 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The anti-Semitism study’s scientific framing was a concession to its American audience. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 382; The Institute’s anti-Semitism study was jointly funded and split across two coasts. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 380; A funding contract with the AJC turned anti-Semitism into an explicit research topic. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 381 (+3 more)