On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Chuck Grimes wrote:
Oy, Chuck, it's just gossip about gossip. Are you sure you care? Here you go:
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Unfortunately the early years of Herr Adorno did not always show him at his best. He wanted an academic position in England that Cassirer was unable to get for him. Horkheimer (at that time in Paris) appeared to be suddenly interested again. Horkheimer was bent out of shape that Adorno had turned to Cassirer and NOT TO HIM. Perhaps Adorno believed that the statement on Cassirer (made after the position had fallen through!) could square things again with Horkheimer. In addition there is another regretable publication Adorno made in Germany after 1933 which belongs to the especially unpretty pages of the so-called power grab. This got some publicity in a Frankfurt student magazine named "Diskus" at the beginning of the 60s . . . Unfortunately the story is not always as simple as it appears in the relevant reference books (you know, those "Introductions to X" they give to students): here black, there white. . .
The Adorno-Horkheimer correspondence is worth reading in any case. I would send you in another direction: look in the index under Reichenbach and the so-called "Logical Positivists."
Cheers,
MH
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