Notes to pp. 447– 453 605196 Adorno, ‘Diskussionsbeitrag zu “Spätkapitalismus oder Industriegesells-
chaft?”’, GS, vol. 8, p. 582.
197 Ibid., p. 587.
Chapter 19 With his Back to the Wall1 Adorno to Horkheimer, 12 July 1967, Frankfurter Adorno Blätter, VI,
2000, p. 55.
2 Adorno to Dreyfus, 16 March 1965, Theodor W. Adorno Archive,
Frankfurt am Main (Br 331/37, 38).
3 Adorno to Andersch, 23 April 1965, Theodor W. Adorno Archive,
Frankfurt am Main (Br 23/35).
4 Adorno to Marcuse, 2 June 1965 and 10 March 1966, Herbert Marcuse
Archive, Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main.
5 The Spiegel affair raised issues of press freedom and the defence of the
state; the metal workers’ strike provoked questions about the public’s
acceptance of the right to strike in defence of workers’ interests. In
the case of the Eichmann trial, the survey considered the prevalence of
anti-Semitic prejudice in the German population.
6 See Regina Schmidt and Egon Becker, Reaktionen auf politische Vorgänge:
Drei Meinungstudien, p. 81.
7 Ibid., p. 137f.
8 Adorno to Marcuse, 14 September 1965, Herbert Marcuse Archive,
Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main.
9 The concept of a ‘fully-formed society’ (formierte Gesellschaft) was essen-
tially devised by Rüdiger Altmann, an adviser to Erhard. It proposed a
strengthening of state power so as to be able to integrate divergent social
groups. This was a reaction to what was held to be an over-exuberant
pluralism and the excessive growth of organized interest groups. See Gert
Schäfer and Carl Nedelmann, Der CDU-Staat.
10 Adorno, ‘Gegen die Notstandsgesetze’, GS, vol. 20.1, p. 396f.
11 Adorno to Marcuse, 1 June 1967, Frankfurter Adorno Blätter, VI, 2000,
p. 44f. Adorno defended Horkheimer’s statements against Marcuse, who
had learnt of them in the press. See Marcuse to Horkheimer, 17 June
1967, Horkheimer, Briefwechsel, GS, vol. 18, p. 655ff.
12 Wolfgang Kraushaar (ed.), Frankfurter Schule und Studentenbewegung,
vol. 1, p. 252f.
13 Adorno, Metaphysics: Concepts and Problems, p. 101.
14 Wolfgang Kraushaar (ed.), Frankfurter Schule und Studentenbewegung,
vol. 1, p. 254.
15 Ibid.
16 Frankfurter Adorno Blätter, III, 1994, p. 145.
17 Jürgen Habermas, Protestbewegung und Hochschulreform, p. 141f.
18 Wolfgang Kraushaar (ed.), Frankfurter Schule und Studentenbewegung,
vol. 1, p. 258f.
19 Habermas distinguished between three phases in the protest movement of
the time. To begin with, there was a reform movement confined to the
university that underwent an initial politicization through the debates about
the Vietnam War. A second, more radical politicization took place with