The Rockefeller Foundation refused to fund independent Frankfurt Institute research

Evidence

Neumann in particular, however, did not consider the rejection to be final. When he and Pollock visited two associates of the Rockefeller Foundation to get more detailed information, it turned out that the idea had been not to support the Institute in independent research, but at the most to support work it might do as part of a project at another institution. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1148

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates the institutional subordination of émigré critical theory to American philanthropic empiricism. — connects to: The Rockefeller Foundation refused to fund Marcuse’s German-American anthropology project. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1987; Key ordoliberal and Austrian thinkers were funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and League — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 376; The exiled Frankfurt Institute isolated itself from American academic life while resenting its marginalization. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1045

Broader Connections

• The Rockefeller Foundation refused to fund Marcuse’s German-American anthropology project. #exemplifies (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1987
• Key ordoliberal and Austrian thinkers were funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and League #qualifies (0.75) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 376