The Frankfurt School's Invitation from Columbia University: How the Horkheimer Circle Settled on Morningside Heights
in German Politics and Society
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Thomas Wheatland
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Oddly enough, the Frankfurt School’s relationship to Columbia University
has been somewhat neglected by its many historians. It is not
hard to understand why the Horkheimer circle would have desired
to settle at Columbia, but it is peculiar that the Frankfurt School
would have received an invitation from Columbia. After all, why
would Columbia University’s conservative president, Nicholas Murray
Butler, and its sociology department extend an invitation to a
group of predominantly German-speaking social philosophers with
strong links to the Marxian left?