Notes to pp. 296–300 559110 Adorno et al., The Authoritarian Personality, p. 751. In a lecture with the
title ‘Lessons of Fascism’, Horkheimer summed up the essential elements
of the authoritarian personality as follows: ‘A mechanical abandonment
to conventional values; blind submission to authority accompanied by blind
hatred of all opponents and outsiders; rejection of introverted behaviour;
strict stereotyped thinking; a tendency to superstition; a half moral,
half cynical devaluation of human nature; projectivity’ (Horkheimer, GS,
vol. 8, p. 10).
111 Adorno et al., The Authoritarian Personality, p. 753.
112 Ibid., p. 771. ‘The subject in whom it [genuine liberalism] is pronounced
has a strong sense of personal autonomy and independence. He cannot
stand any outside interference with his personal convictions and beliefs,
and he does not want to interfere with those of others either. His ego
is quite developed but not libidinized.... One of his conspicuous features
is moral courage’ (ibid., p. 781). See ibid., pp. 346ff., here p. 383.
113 Ibid., p. 767.
114 Adorno, ‘Scientific Experiences of a European Scholar in America’, in
Critical Models, p. 234.
115 Ibid., p. 235. It may be pointed out that the appearance of The Authoritarian
Personality triggered a whole series of empirical studies of authoritarianism
in the USA. Up to 1989, something over 2000 publications on the subject
have been recorded. On the response to the book, see Michael Werz,
‘Untrennbarkeit von Material und Methode’, p. 40ff.
116 The thirty-page long undated typescript is preserved in the Horkheimer–
Pollock Archive, Frankfurt am Main. The text as given here derives from
that manuscript.
117 Cf. Adorno, ‘Vorurteil und Charakter’, GS, vol. 9.2, p. 360ff.
118 Adorno, Minima Moralia, p. 200.
119 Gert Raeithel, Geschichte der nordamerikanischen Kultur, vol. 3, p. 146.
120 Herbert Sirois, Zwischen Illusion und Krieg: Deutschland und die USA
1933–1941, p. 229ff.
121 Adorno expressed his regret to his parents that he had renounced the
name Wiesengrund, and even the W., as well as his additional forename
Ludwig. See his letter to his parents, 20 December 1943, Briefe an die
Eltern, p. 234.
122 Horkheimer, ‘Einige Betrachtungen zum Curfew’, GS, vol. 5, p. 251ff. On
the exile paper Aufbau, see Joachim Radkau, Die deutsche Emigration in
den USA, p. 126ff.
123 Löwenthal to Adorno, 14 April 1942, Horkheimer–Pollock Archive,
Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main.
124 See Adorno, Briefe an die Eltern, p. 139ff.
125 Horkheimer, Briefwechsel, GS, vol. 17, p. 335.
126 See Adorno, Briefe an die Eltern, p. 164ff.
127 Adorno to Horkheimer, 9 February 1944, Horkheimer–Pollock Archive,
Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main.
128 Adorno, Minima Moralia, p. 170.
129 Ibid.
130 He played Kommissar Gruber in Hangmen Also Die!, a film on which
Bertolt Brecht had also worked.
131 Adorno, Minima Moralia, p. 190.