Notes to pp. 344–347 571be expressed in logical speech or at least not without contradiction: namely
that knowledge must burst asunder the prison of discursive thought and
terminate in pure intuition [Anschauung]’ (Jürgen Habermas, Nachmeta-
physiches Denken, p. 262).
73 Adorno, Minima Moralia, p. 86.
74 Ibid., p. 192.
75 See Jürgen Habermas, Philosophisch-politische Profile, p. 162.
76 Adorno, Minima Moralia, p. 110.
77 See Unser Liederbuch: Die beliebtesten Kinderlieder.
78 Adorno, Minima Moralia, p. 200.
79 See Albrecht Wellmer, ‘Die Bedeutung der Frankfurter Schule heute’,
p. 224f.
80 Adorno, Minima Moralia, p. 247.
81 Ibid., p. 156.
82 Ibid., p. 102.
83 This paper was run by the US occupation authorities, while editorial
control was in the hands of the writer Erich Kästner.
84 Adorno, ‘A Title’, Notes to Literature, vol. 2, p. 301.
85 Adorno and Mann, Briefwechsel, p. 98f.
86 Adorno, ‘Unrat and Angel’, Notes to Literature, vol. 2, p. 304. (‘I did not
wish for this’ was supposed to have been said by the Emperor Franz
Joseph about the First World War [trans.].)
87 Adorno to Grzimek, 1 February 1955, Theodor W. Adorno Archive,
Frankfurt am Main (Br 518/1).
88 Adorno to Grzimek, 8 February 1955, Theodor W. Adorno Archive,
Frankfurt am Main (Br 518/2).
89 Adorno to Grzimek, 23 April 1955, Theodor W. Adorno Archive, Frank-
furt am Main (Br 518/4). Zoos, no matter where, were one of Adorno’s
passions. Many of the animals he loved were associated with private
fantasies. His mother, Maria, who had great talents as an actor, could do
a convincing imitation of a mother chimpanzee de-lousing her offspring.
In his personal bestiary, however, she was not a primate, but a female
hippopotamus. Her son was known as Archibald, the Hippopotamus King,
and called himself just Hippo (and sometimes just a great fool [großes
Rindvieh, literally, ‘cattle’ = ‘a great ass’]), one of the pachyderms which,
according to Brehm’s Life of the Animals, is a gregarious animal that
spends much time dozing dreamily but is also immensely greedy, so that
it can easily become a pest. Aunt Agathe was a tigress which, again
according to Brehm, commonly attacked the largest animals but was also
content with the smallest ones; it was bold and cheeky. Gretel was called
a gazelle by her husband, an animal well known for its long legs, graceful
head and large clear eyes.
90 Monika Plessner, Die Argonauten auf Long Island: Begegnungen mit
Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Gershom Scholem und anderen,
p. 48.
91 Ibid., p. 49.
92 Benjamin, GS, vol. 1.2, p. 697. Dorothea Razumovsky, who with her
husband was a frequent guest of the Adornos in the mid-1950s, remem-
bers the picture. The original was in the possession of Gershom Scholem
and is now in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.