Notes to pp. 127–132 51528 Ibid., p. 75.
29 Ibid., p. 133.
30 Ibid., p. 132.
31 Ibid., p. 126. There are similar ideas towards the end of an essay on Schubert
that Adorno had written as early as 1928. He goes in search there of the
decayed images in Schubert’s music that make ‘the tears flow from our
eyes’: ‘We weep without knowing why; because we have not yet become
what that music promises, and in the indescribable happiness that the
music needs only to be what it is in order to assure us that we will one day
become like that. We cannot read them, but the music holds out to our
fading eyes, brimful of tears, the ciphers of ultimate reconciliation’ (Adorno,
‘Can One Live After Auschwitz?’, p. 313).
32 Adorno, Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic, p. 125.
33 Adorno discussed the idea of ‘exact fantasy’, to which we have already
alluded, in his inaugural lecture on ‘The Current Relevance of Philosophy’;
see GS, vol. 1, p. 342.
34 Adorno, Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic, p. 125.
35 Paul Tillich, ‘Gutachten über die Arbeit von Dr. Wiesengrund: Die
Konstruktion des Ästhetischen bei Kierkegaard’, File on Theodor W.
Adorno, Archive of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts of the Johann Wolfgang
Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main (Section 134, Number 4, Sheets
17–24).
36 Max Horkheimer, ‘Bemerkungen in Sachen der Habilitation Dr.
Wiesengrund’, File on Theodor W. Adorno, Archive of the Dean of the
Faculty of Arts of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am
Main (Section 134, Number 4, Sheets 25–31).
37 Benjamin and Adorno, The Complete Correspondence 1928–1940, p. 20.
See also Benjamin, GS, vol. III, pp. 380ff. and 660ff.
38 Benjamin and Adorno, The Complete Correspondence 1928–1940, p. 20f.
39 Adorno, Kierkegaard, GS, vol. 2, p. 261.
40 See Marbacher Magazin, ‘Siegfried Kracauer’, p. 74ff.
41 See Bloch’s letter to Kracauer in January 1931, in E. Bloch, Briefe 1903–
1975 , p. 351.
42 Benjamin, Selected Writings, vol. 2, p. 705.
43 Adorno, ‘Kierkegaard noch einmal’, GS, vol. 2, p. 247.
44 Ibid., p. 250.
45 Ibid., p. 258.
46 S. Kracauer, Der enthüllte Kierkegaard, Schriften, vol. 5.3, p. 263.
Chapter 10 The Institute of Social Research1 Hermann Weil was born in 1868 into a family of Jewish businessmen.
Together with his brother, he had established a grain-trading firm in
Buenos Aires and, later on, a wholesale importer’s in Rotterdam. These
businesses had made him extremely wealthy. Having returned to Germany
in 1908 for reasons of health, he settled in Frankfurt and emerged as
benefactor to a number of institutes in the new university. During
the First World War, he had connections with the Institute for Marine
Transport and World Trade in Kiel, and, because of his expert knowledge