The Institute remained socially isolated from Columbia’s professoriate despite its relocation there

Evidence

Although the Institute of Social Research had never made any efforts to achieve serious co-operation with the professors at Columbia, and had remained a closed book to even the most well disposed of them, as a member of the Institute Marcuse was not approaching them merely as an individual. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1230

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Institute’s broader organizational insularity as an émigré institution, matching patterns of social closure among exiles in any disciplinary history. — connects to: Columbia’s turn toward empiricism and the war loosened the Institut’s ties with the university — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 655

Broader Connections

• Columbia’s turn toward empiricism and the war loosened the Institut’s ties with the university #corroborates (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 655