Index 661Opie, Redvers, 192, 193, 230, 233
Oppenheim, Gabriele, 233
Oppenheim, Paul, 232
Oppenheimer, Franz, 70, 73–4, 77,
177
Osmer, Dieter, 336, 352
Oxford, 23–4, 58, 68, 170, 183,
187–241
Oxford University Musical Society,
193–4
Oxford University Press, 304, 314
Pacific Ocean, 306
Packer, Eleanor, 313
Paeschke, Hans, 458
Paestum, 95, 436
Papen, Franz von, 173
Paris, 7, 8; arcades, 122, 208, 214–19,
225; Benjamin in, 129, 162, 178,
214, 217, 229, 241, 255; favourite
place, 219, 406–7, 466; German
refugees, 129; lectures, 403, 407,
431, 434, 448, 469; post-war visits,
231–3, 320–1, 337, 348, 356–7, 466;
pre-war visits, 58, 122, 197, 198,
219, 241; student movement, 460
Parsons, Talcott, 422, 423
patricide, 457–9
Paul, Jean, 307
Paxmann, Liesel, 227–8
Pearl Harbor, 298
Pelzer, Rolland, 474
Persia, Shah of, 450, 451
Petri, Egon, 106
Pfeiffer-Belli, Erich, 34, 35
Pfitzner, Hans, 108
phenomenology, 68, 78, 79, 109, 120,
192, 218–19
Philosophical Fragments, 277, 280–2,
288
philosophy: English schools, 193;
function, 416; and German
language, 326; Lebensphilosophie,
71; philosophy of history, 269,
362–3, 445; philosophy of language,
268–9; philosophy of music, 68, 90,
150–5, 161, 172, 198–203, 274–8;
philosophy of sociology, 367;
social philosophy, 138; ‘standpoint
philosophy’, 79; TA at Frankfurt
University, 326, plate 28; TA’s
doctoral thesis, 119; TA’s
Habilitation, 98, 103–6, 107, 109,
119, 122–31; TA’s introduction to,
43–5; TA’s legacy, 486–7; TA’s
post-war courses, 331–2; TA’s
professorship, 368; TA’s synthesis,
379–80; TA’s university studies, 45,
53, 67, 69–81; truth, 145–6, 148,
156, 260; vs. music, 68, 100–9
Philosophy of Modern Music (1949),
172, 274–8, 315, 316, 320, 326, 334,
342, 392
Picasso, Pablo, 277, 347, 407, 471
Pirker, Theo, 371–2
Plato, 366, 434
Plessner, Helmuth, 347, 352, 368, 371,
372, 401
Plessner, Monica, 347, 352
Pocono Mountains, 308
Podszus, Friedrich, 341, 342
Poe, Edgar Allan, 354
poetry, TA’s poems, 61
Poland, 261, 262, 416
politics: TA’s naivety, 176–81; TA’s
political statements, 414, 416;
education, 375; political criticism,
387; post-war Germany, 412–20,
448–56; TA’s political instincts,
340; and Weimar intellectuals,
378
Pollock, Friedrich, 235, 357; and
Benjamin, 215; California, 267, 269;
editorial work, 369; essays, 151;
exile, 196, 197; fiftieth birthday,
288; and Horkheimer, 75, 124, 178;
institute finances, 195, 255, 256,
257; Institute of Social Research,
132, 133, 134, 143, 271; and
Nazism, 178; relations with TA,
255, 432; theory of fascism, 265
Pompeii, 95
Popitz, Heinrich, 371
Popper, Karl, 327, 425–6
popular culture, 50–1, 349–50
popular music, 108–9, 199–200, 246,
251–2, 254
Positano, 95
positivism, 232, 233, 255, 260, 327,
367, 421–30