532 Notes to pp. 201–204
undertaken on the relations between the stability or instability of the
family and the authoritarian views of its members. On the basis of the
data collected by these methods, a generalized sociological account was
drawn up of the problem of authority from a historical point of view.
See Wolfgang Bonß, Die Einübung des Tatsachenblicks, p. 175; Rolf
Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, p. 149ff.; Martin Jay, The Dialectical
Imagination, p. 124ff.
64 The typescript is in the Theodor W. Adorno Archive in Frankfurt
(Ts 22300–22322). Nick Chadwick was the first person to explore the collab-
oration between Adorno and Seiber on this subject. He has examined
Seiber’s papers, which were housed in the British Library following Seiber’s
death in 1960. In the course of his research he came across unpublished
letters of Adorno’s. See Nick Chadwick, ‘Mátyás Seiber’s Collaboration
in Adorno’s Jazz Project’, p. 259ff.; see also Evelyn Wilcock, ‘The Dating
of Seiber’, p. 264ff.
65 The idea that the jazz orchestra was a copulation machine had also
been used in the article for the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung, but this
passage had been deleted by the editors. See Adorno and Horkheimer,
Briefwechsel, vol. 1, p. 199.
66 Steinert has criticized Adorno’s idea that ‘syncopation represents pre-
mature ejaculation’. Jazz embodies something much deeper, namely ‘the
shift of emphasis on the beat from the European norm. In addition, you
find a number of overlapping rhythms so that the different emphases
interfere with one another and cancel one another out.’ This is not
adequately encapsulated either in the simplistic formula of ‘premature
ejaculation’, or by ‘analogies taken from the theory of instinctual drives in
general’. Heinz Steinert, Die Entdeckung der Kulturindustrie, p. 108f.
67 See Nick Chadwick, ‘Mátyás Seiber’s Collaboration in Adorno’s Jazz
Project’, p. 275.
68 Ibid., p. 285.
69 See Adorno, Moments Musicaux: Impromptus, GS, vol. 17, p. 100ff.
70 Ibid., p. 102.
71 Benjamin and Adorno, The Complete Correspondence 1928–1940, p. 132.
He gave Horkheimer a rather more modest description of his essay:
‘Needless to say, the whole thing is mainly important as a methodological
model of a materialist analysis of a conveniently observable superstructural
phenomenon.’ Adorno and Horkheimer, Briefwechsel, vol. 1, p. 220.
72 Benjamin and Adorno, The Complete Correspondence 1928–1940, p. 62.
73 Adorno and Horkheimer, Briefwechsel, vol. 1, pp. 427 and 429.
74 Ibid., p. 456.
75 Theodor W. Adorno Archive, Frankfurt am Main (Ts 3221). He published
the texts that arose from his three-year-long preoccupation with Husserl
in Oxford in revised form in 1956 with the title Against Epistemology: A
Metacritique – Studies in Husserl and the Phenomenological Antinomies.
In the same context we should mention the essay version ‘Zur Philosophie
Husserls’ and the later, shorter text ‘Husserl and the Problem of
Idealism’, which was published in the Journal of Philosophy in the United
States in 1940. See Adorno, Against Epistemology; ‘Zur Philosophie
Husserls’, GS, vol. 20.1, p. 46ff; ‘Husserl and the Problem of Idealism’,
ibid., p. 119ff.