Felix Weil
AKA: Felix José Weil · Weil
The Record
Weil matters to this record for one decision. He supplied the endowment that created the Institute for Social Research at Frankfurt in 1923. He wanted to call it the Institut für Marxismus, the Institute for Marxism. He accepted that the name would make the venture impossible to place inside a German university, and the neutral title went on the door instead.
The episode earns a file because it is the earliest instance in this record of a pattern that recurs at every later stage. Among people who already agree, they state the substance plainly. The label they turn outward is the one that will survive. Nothing about the research programme changed with the name.
Relationship Ledger
The Institute for Social Research was endowed at Frankfurt in 1923 on a gift from Felix Weil, and became the workshop in which the critique of Western culture was made into an academic discipline. Source: The Critical Turn in Education: From Marxist Critique to Poststructuralist Feminism to Critical Theories of Race
Referenced in
Records whose text names Felix Weil. The list is rebuilt from the published prose and checked for drift.
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