Notes to pp. 247–251 54527 Adorno, ‘Scientific Experiences of a European Scholar in America’, in
Critical Models, p. 219.
28 Adorno to Lazarsfeld, 21 March 1938, Löwenthal Archive, Stadt- und
Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main. The texts arising from the
radio research project can be found in the Theodor W. Adorno Archive,
Frankfurt am Main (Ts 51320ff.).
29 Adorno, ‘Scientific Experiences of a European Scholar in America’, in
Critical Models, p. 219.
30 Ibid., p. 223.
31 Paul Lazarsfeld, ‘Eine Episode in der Geschichte der empirischen
Sozialforschung’, p. 176.
32 Adorno to Lazarsfeld, 21 March 1938, Löwenthal Archive, Stadt- und
Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main. Both of Adorno’s exposés
‘Fragen und Thesen’ of January and February 1938 have been published
in the Frankfurter Adorno Blätter, VII, 2003, pp. 97ff. and 114ff.
33 A photocopy of the original with Lazarsfeld’s notes is in the archive of
Columbia University (Butler Library). I have examined the typescript in
the archive and excerpted essential portions of it. The texts that Adorno
wrote arising from the radio research project and collected for publication
in 1940 (Theodor W. Adorno Archive, Frankfurt am Main, Ts 49565)
under the title of Current of Music: Elements of a Radio Theory are due to
appear in 2005 as volume 3 of the Nachgelassene Schriften. They are being
edited by Robert Hullot-Kentor. The Theodor W. Adorno Archive is
general editor of the Nachgelassene Schriften.
34 Adorno, ‘Music in Radio’, Archive of Columbia University (Butler Lib-
rary), 1938, p. 93f.
35 Ibid., p. 123.
36 Ibid., p. 132.
37 Adorno and Krenek, Briefwechsel, p. 130; Benjamin and Adorno, Brief-
wechsel, p. 326.
38 Archive of Columbia University (Butler Library).
39 Undated letter from Lazarsfeld [in his English], Löwenthal Archive,
Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main. See also Martin
Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, pp. 222–3.
40 Wolfgang Bonß, Die Einübung des Tatsachenblicks, p. 194ff.
41 Adorno to Lazarsfeld, 6 September 1938, Horkheimer Archive, Stadt-
und Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main.
42 ‘Über den Fetischcharakter in der Musik und die Regression des Hörens’,
ZfS, VII, 3, p. 222ff. (GS, vol. 14, p. 14ff.); ‘Versuch über Wagner’, ZfS,
VIII, 8, p. 1ff. (GS, vol. 13, p. 7ff).
43 The concept of fetish-character is taken from Karl Marx’s Critique of
Political Economy. What he means by it is not just the overvaluation of
an object (fetishism), but that, when translated into the form of money,
commodities acquire a social function, a social character. As the products
of labour, they exercise power over their producers, who are fixated on
the money value of what they have themselves produced. By operating as
a mediating factor, money thus becomes independent, the autonomous
goal of the social process.
In psychoanalysis regression refers to the reversion to an earlier stage
of functioning, e.g., to a prior libidinal stage, to earlier object relations,