Notes to pp. 465– 470 609to use it and when I utter a mild protest, he responds by saying, “But,
Herr Professor, it’s wrong to take these things personally”.’ Adorno to
Kluge, 1 April 1969, ibid., p. 100.
83 ‘Aktennotiz’, ibid., p. 94.
84 Adorno to Marcuse, 28 February 1969, ibid., p. 97.
85 Adorno to Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, 25 February 1969, ibid., p. 96.
86 Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, p. 119.
87 Adorno, ‘Free Time’, Critical Models, p. 168.
88 At the end of March, in a letter to Siegfried Unseld, Adorno expressed his
‘pride’ in having contributed to Suhrkamp’s success over the years. Adorno
to Unseld, 27 March 1969, in Adorno, ‘So müßte ich Engel und kein Autor
sein’: Theodor W. Adorno und die Frankfurter Verleger, p. 388.
89 For his activities as director of the Institute of Social Research, Adorno
obtained only the refund of his expenses. The only benefits he received
from his position took the form of a number of assistants, a secretary and
other clerical help.
90 See Rolf Tiedemann, ‘Gegen den Trug der Frage nach Sinn’, p. 76.
91 Theodor W. Adorno Archive, Frankfurt am Main (Ts 52028).
92 Ibid. (Ts 52029).
93 Adorno, ‘Resignation’, Critical Models, p. 293.
94 Adorno, Minima Moralia, p. 200.
95 Marie-Luise Borchardt was a niece of Rudolf Alexander Schröder; she
lived in Italy with her husband, who had been born in Königsberg in 1877
into a prosperous Protestant family of Jewish origin. In 1944 Borchardt
was arrested there by a German unit and taken to Innsbruck and put
in prison. He succumbed to a heart attack shortly after his release. After
his death, his widow devoted herself to the publication of his works for
forty-four years. She died on 31 January 1989.
96 Adorno to Marie-Luise Borchardt, 18 April and 13 June 1967, Theodor
W. Adorno Archive, Frankfurt am Main (Br 171/7, 8 and 14).
97 Adorno to Marie-Luise Borchardt, 1 September 1967, Theodor W. Adorno
Archive, Frankfurt am Main (Br 171/ 17, 18).
98 Dieter Schnebel, ‘Komposition von Sprache’, p. 144f.
99 The volume Ausgewählte Gedichte appeared with an introduction and a
comment on the choice of poems in the Bibliothek Suhrkamp in 1968; see
also Adorno, ‘Charmed Language’, Notes to Literature, vol. 2, p. 193ff.
100 Ibid., p. 200.
101 Ibid., p. 209.
102 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 11 September 1968.
103 Horkheimer, Briefwechsel, GS, vol. 18, p. 700ff.
104 Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, p. 130.
105 Adorno’s preoccupation with aesthetics dates back to his activities as
a Privatdozent in 1931–2. After his return to Germany, he lectured on
aesthetics in 1950–1 and 1955–6. He lectured again on the subject in the
winter semester of 1958–9 and then, in two parts, in the summer semester
1961 and winter semester 1961–2. By this time he had written a first
draft of the Aesthetic Theory which was still subdivided into different
paragraphs. See Frankfurter Adorno Blätter, I, 1992, p. 35.
106 A non-authorized partial transcription of the winter lectures was
published in a pirated edition.