Notes to pp. 74–81 50520 Ibid.
21 Adhémar Gelb worked with Max Wertheimer at the Psychology Institute,
which had been founded by Friedrich Schumann and which enjoyed a good
reputation at the time. Horkheimer had begun his studies there and, later
on, spoke in positive terms of the experimental research that went on
there. See Notker Hammerstein, Die Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität,
p. 122.
22 Adorno, ‘Offener Brief an Horkheimer’, GS, vol. 20.1, p. 156.
23 Ibid.
24 Adorno to Leo Löwenthal, 16 July 1924, in Löwenthal, Mitmachen wollte
ich nie, p. 247. The ‘Schumann’ referred to is the gestalt psychologist with
whom Adorno had studied and who acted as the second examiner on his
dissertation. Adorno’s impression of Horkheimer and Pollock’s political
views has given rise to misunderstandings. It is true that they had both
concerned themselves with Marx’s economic theories and his philosophy
of history, and that they were both interested in a revival of Marxism.
However, neither was ever a member of a Communist Party.
25 Horkheimer, ‘Das Schlimmste erwarten und doch das Gute verstehen’, GS,
vol. 7, p. 448.
26 The concept of gestalt is based on the idea that the multiplicity of psychic
experiences is subsumed into a unity. As a totality, the gestalt is more than
the parts that it organizes into a whole. The qualities of a gestalt are based
on objective data.
27 Horkheimer, Einführung in die Philosophie der Gegenwart, GS, vol. 10,
p. 264.
28 See Michael Korthals, ‘Die kritische Gesellschaftstheorie des frühen
Horkheimer’, p. 319ff.; Hans-Joachim Dahms, Positivismusstreit, p. 21ff.
29 Adorno, Der Begriff des Unbewußten in der transzendentalen Seelenlehre,
GS, vol. 1, p. 81. It should be pointed out that Adorno’s later philosophy
expressly rejected any kind of ‘perspectival’, standpoint philosophy.
30 Leo Löwenthal, Mitmachen wollte ich nie, p. 247.
31 Ibid., p. 248.
32 Adorno, ‘Résumé der Dissertation’, GS, vol. 1, p. 376.
33 Adorno, Die Transzendenz des Dinglichen und Noematischen in Husserls
Phänomenologie, GS, vol. 1, p. 71.
34 Ibid., p. 66.
35 Ibid., p. 76.
36 Horkheimer, ‘Die Sehnsucht nach dem ganz Anderen’, GS, vol. 7, p. 385;
see also ‘Das Schlimmste erwarten und doch das Gute versuchen’, ibid.,
p. 442.
37 See his letter to Berg of 30 March 1926. There Adorno gives an account of
the changes in his philosophical outlook following his discussions with Walter
Benjamin in the summer of 1925 in Naples. Adorno and Berg, Briefwechsel
1925–1935, p. 75.
38 Walter Benjamin, ‘The Storyteller’, in Illuminations, p. 84; cf. G. Lukács,
Die Theorie des Romans, p. 32.
39 Adorno, ‘Frank Wedekind and his Genre Painting’, Notes to Literature,
vol. 2, p. 268.
40 Adorno, ‘Expressionism and Artistic Truthfulness’, Notes to Literature,
vol. 2, p. 259.