Wealthy fathers managed sons’ crises by sending them abroad as trainees

Evidence

Seeing that his son was in poor health and plagued by inner conflicts, Horkheimer’s father applied the classical remedy in wealthy families: he sent his intended successor on a long trip abroad. Together with Pollock, Horkheimer spent the last eighteen months before the war first as a trainee in Brussels (with occasional sorties to Paris) and then in Manchester and London, free of any duties. … But even his life as a junior manager gave him a bad conscience when he thought of the miserable existence of working people and of the soldiers out there in the war. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 165

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates the ‘classical remedy in wealthy families’ — the grand tour as bourgeois therapeutic device, useful reference material on class reproduction.
• XREF: connects to: Bourgeois flourishing depended on father’s societal role grounding family authority and education — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 620

Broader Connections

• Bourgeois flourishing depended on father’s societal role grounding family authority and education #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 620