Adorno

Notes to pp. 362–368 577

196 Jürgen Habermas, Philosophisch-politische Profile, p. 161.
197 Adorno, ‘The Essay as Form’, Notes to Literature, vol. 1, p. 13f.
198 Horkheimer, Briefwechsel, GS, vol. 18, p. 387.
199 Ibid., p. 389.
200 Adorno, ‘Progress’, Critical Models, p. 148.
201 Ibid., p. 147.
202 Ibid., p. 150.
203 Ibid.
204 Jürgen Ritsert rightly notes that Adorno attempts to retain the dual char-
acter of ends–means rationality as the foundation of all self-preserving
rational action, and at the same time to expose the social conditions in
which this principle contributes to the irrationalization (destruction) of
the social conditions in which the individual lives. Ritsert, Die Rationalität
Adornos.
205 Adorno, ‘Progress’, Critical Models, p. 154.
206 Ibid., p. 157.
207 Ibid., p. 159.
208 Ibid., p. 148 (translation modified).
209 See Adorno, ‘Trying to Understand Endgame’, Notes to Literature, vol. 1,
p. 263.
210 Adorno, ‘Parataxis’, Notes to Literature, vol. 2, p. 121.

Chapter 17 Gaining Recognition for Critical Theory

1 From these lectures only a few survive in note form in the Theodor W.

Adorno Archive. From the winter semester 1957–8 on, Adorno recorded

his lectures on tape and then had them copied. Of the thirty-five lecture

courses that he gave altogether in the course of his teaching career, some

fifteen have survived. See Rolf Tiedemann, ‘Editor’s Afterword’, in

Adorno, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, p. 282f.

2 Herbert Schnädelbach, ‘Philosophieren lernen’, p. 56ff.

3 Oskar Negt, ‘Denken als Gegenproduktion’, p. 77.

4 See Adorno, ‘Einleitung zum Positivisumusstreit in der deutschen

Soziologie’; ‘Einleitung zu Émile Durkheim, Soziologie und Philosophie’,

GS, vol. 8, pp. 280ff. and 245ff.

5 See Adorno, Introduction to Sociology.

6 See ibid., p. 15.

7 Hauser to Adorno, ‘Arnold Hauser und Theodor W. Adorno. Zeugnisse

einer Freundschaft’, in Der Aquädukt 1763–1988: Ein Almanach aus dem

Verlag C. H. Beck im 225. Jahr seines Bestehens, p. 508.

8 Ibid., p. 511.

9 Weischedel himself had refused an offer of a post at Frankfurt University

in 1957. See Horkheimer, Briefwechsel, GS, vol. 18, p. 378.

10 Ibid., p. 514.

11 See Elmar Schübl, Jean Gebser und die Frage der Astrologie. The cor-

respondence between Adorno and Gebser is preserved in the Archive for

Swiss Literature in Berne.

12 On 5 December, Adorno received notification from the university admin-

istration that a decision had been reached in connection with his application