562 Notes to pp. 310–315
means to lose the last vestige of security that lies in thinking about our
parents’ (Horkheimer, Briefwechsel, GS, vol. 17, p. 624).
181 Adorno to his mother, 9 July 1946, Briefe an die Eltern 1939–1951, p. 367ff.
182 Thomas Mann, Die Entstehung des Doktor Faustus, chapter 5.
183 Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus, p. 53ff. The passage contains Mann’s
playful tribute to Adorno, since the musical illustration ‘mead-ow-land’
(‘Wie-sengrund’) is of course an allusion to Adorno’s surname [trans.].
184 See Horkheimer, Briefwechsel, GS, vol. 17, p. 634.
185 Adorno, Minima Moralia, p. 188.
186 Adorno referred to the film in his essay on Kafka in order to illustrate
the gulf between individuality and social character. See Adorno, ‘Notes
on Kafka’, in Prisms, p. 255.
187 Adorno, ‘Zweimal Chaplin’, GS, vol. 10.1, p. 365f. In an essay that
Habermas wrote in memory of Adorno, he pointed out quite rightly that
this story tells us more about Adorno than about Chaplin. See Jürgen
Habermas, ‘Urgeschichte der Subjektivität und verwilderte Selbst-
behauptung’, p. 167.
188 Adorno, Minima Moralia, p. 145.
189 Ibid., p. 137. Charlie McCarthy was a popular ventriloquist dummy of the
1940s operated by Edgar Bergen [trans.].
190 Ibid., p. 25.
191 Adorno, Kompositionen für den Film, GS, vol. 15, p. 46ff.
192 Ibid., p. 77.
193 Ibid., p. 144.
194 Adorno to his mother, 13 June 1947, Briefe an die Eltern 1939–1951,
p. 405ff., especially p. 407.
195 See Adorno and Mann, Briefwechsel, p. 17. It is not impossible that Thomas
Mann may have noticed his young admirer. He notes in his diary on 17
September 1921 that he had been ‘the object of curiosity in Kampen and
Wenningstedt’. Cf. Reinhard Pabst, Seesucht.
196 Adorno and Mann, Briefwechsel, p. 17.
197 See Hermann Kurzke, Thomas Mann, p. 444ff. and 490ff.; Thomas Mann,
Die Entstehung des Doktor Faustus.
198 Thomas Mann was the best-known and most highly respected German
writer to have emigrated to the USA. His fame stemmed not just from the
Nobel Prize he had been awarded in 1929, and from the fact that his
books had been published in English translation by Alfred A. Knopf, but
also from the honorary doctorate he had received from Harvard University
and his extended lecture tours in the United States, in which his anti-
fascist views were clearly articulated. His reputation was so great that he
was invited to visit the White House, where he was received by President
and Mrs Roosevelt. See Jost Hermand and Wigand Lange, ‘Wollt ihr
Thomas Mann wiederhaben?’, p. 17ff.; Kurzke, Thomas Mann, p. 470ff.
199 Having read the MS of The Philosophy of Modern Music, Mann was in no
doubt that he had learnt something that would be of use to him for the
novel he had planned. ‘I discovered an artistic, sociological critique of
the greatest progressiveness, subtlety and depth, one that had a peculiar
affinity with the idea of my own work, with the “composition” in which
I lived and on which I was working. I decided at once that “this was my
man”.’ Thomas Mann, Die Entstehung des Doktor Faustus, p. 33.