The term Frankfurt School emerged only after the Institut’s exile

Evidence

The German spelling of Institut will be used throughout the text to set it apart from any other institute. It will also be used as coterminous with the “Frankfurt School” in the period after 1933. What must be remembered, however, is that the notion of a specific school did not develop until after the Institut was forced to leave Frankfurt (the term itself was not used until the Institut returned to Germany in t95o). As will be made clear in the opening chapter, the Weimar Institut was far too pluralist in its Marxism to allow the historian to identify its theoretical perspective with that of the Frankfurt School as it emerged in later years. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 2144

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Nazi regime legally confiscated the Frankfurt Institute as Communist property — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 516; The Frankfurt School label originated as an outsider term in the 1960s