The Institute suppressed needed objective-factor research as it returned to Frankfurt

Evidence

In view of the hopelessness of taking on such a task with the number of assistants they were prepared to work with, they had clearly suppressed it increasingly over the course of the years, or learnt to skip over reminders of it with stylized descriptions of work already carried out. When they returned to Frankfurt, it was as the authors of Dialectic of Enlightenment and of Studies in Prejudice, as philosophers of history and critics of culture, as social psychologists and experts in modern sociological research technique: as established academics who seemed willing to pass on their achievements, and as a team. Only Adorno, however, had any serious intention not to rest on his laurels. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1842

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general picture of the Frankfurt School’s return to West Germany and Adorno’s exceptional ambition among the returnees. — connects to: The Frankfurt School’s promised empirical program quietly collapsed by the late 1930s — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1025; The Institute abandoned empirical research at the end of the 1930s — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1035; The Frankfurt Institute suppressed its labor study over methodological disagreements with Lazarsfeld — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1563 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer suppressed the Institute’s most successful empirical study by denying Habermas its institutional label #exemplifies (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2358