Notes to pp. 437– 443 603silken ladder. This leads to all sorts of complications. This saga is the
basis for the old German folksong Fox, you have stolen the goose”’ (ibid.,
p. 486).
153 Adorno and Sohn-Rethel, Briefwechsel, p. 150f.
154 Ibid., p. 152.
155 Ibid., p. 152f.
156 Adorno, Negative Dialectics, p. 203.
157 Ibid., p. 408.
158 Ibid., p. 405.
159 Ibid., p. 52.
160 Ibid., p. 5.
161 Ibid., p. 52.
162 Alex Demirovic, Der nonkonformistische Intellektuelle, p. 662.
163 Dieter Henrich, ‘Diagnose der Gegenwart’.
164 Alex Demirovic, Der nonkonformistische Intellektuelle, p. 665.
165 Adorno, ‘Diskussionsbeitrag zu “Spätkapitalismus oder Industriegesell-
schaft”’, GS, vol. 8, p. 580ff.
166 Alex Demirovic, Der nonkonformistische Intellektuelle, p. 656.
167 Adorno, ‘Marginalia to Theory and Praxis’, in Critical Models, p. 260.
(The lines in Goethe’s Faust are: ‘My friend, all theory is grey, and green
/ The golden tree of life.’ Faust, part I, trans. David Luke. Oxford and
New York, 1987, p. 61, lines 2038f.)
168 Adorno, ‘Scientific Experiences of a European Scholar in America’, in
Critical Models, p. 216.
169 Adorno, Negative Dialectics, p. 29.
170 Adorno, Introduction to Sociology, pp. 49, 84ff., and 136ff. This course of
lectures, the last that Adorno gave from beginning to end, not only con-
tains important aspects of his conception of sociology, but also reproduces
his approach to thinking about sociology in a highly authentic manner.
171 Adorno devoted seminars to both these topics in the summer semester
1965 and winter semester 1965–6. Cf. Adorno, ‘Anmerkungen zum sozialen
Konflikt heute’, GS, vol. 8, p. 177ff.; see also Alex Demirovic, Der
nonkonformistische Intellektuelle, p. 429.
172 Adorno, ‘Soziologie und empirische Forschung’, GS, vol. 8, p. 196.
173 The typescript of the lecture course is in the Theodor W. Adorno Archive
in Frankfurt am Main (Vo 5456ff.). In the course of these lectures Adorno
spoke of his own philosophical training. Under Hans Cornelius, his
studies were limited to Aristotle and Plato. Later on, this was extended to
include Kant, then Kierkegaard and Husserl and, finally, Hegel, Fichte
and Schelling. What Adorno considered important was to think philo-
sophically rather than to learn the history of philosophy. He attacked the
‘men with beards’ who insisted on eternal values and also the ‘complacent
positivists’ who were busy making themselves at home in a meaningless
world (Vo 5517).
174 See ibid. (Vo 5548).
175 See ibid. (Vo 5610).
176 See ibid. (Vo 5609).
177 When Adorno gave his paper, he and von Friedeburg had already given
up their posts in the German Sociological Society. Dahrendorf was elected
chairman as successor to Adorno in November 1967.