Question for Dennis Redmond (Adorno on Cassirer)

Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema crdbronx at erols.com
Tue Apr 17 05:14:11 PDT 2001


This does have some interest for the history of the Frankfurt School. Also, I find Cassirer interesting, and wonder if other list participants have any thoughts about him. Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema

Michael Pollak wrote:


> On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Chuck Grimes wrote:
>
> Oy, Chuck, it's just gossip about gossip. Are you sure you care? Here
> you go:
>
> <translation>
>
> 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
>
> <end translation>
>
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