That's really interesting. Sounds like the kind of thing Adorno would have done. (I'm not trying to take a cheap shot at Adorno, but didn't he change his name from Wiesengrund because the latter sounded Jewish?)
You know more about this than I do, but I kind of think a lot of the "Heidegger was superwicked!" stuff rests on a lack of understanding of how pervasive and banal this kind of thing was in Germany in the 1930s and is tied into an attempt to get German society as a whole off the hook, which is also tied into an idea that human beings are basically nice and good. Not that I have any coherent theories about this, just some percolating thoughts. (The same kind of thought process tries to get Soviet society off the hook for the Terror and blame it all on Stalin, when in fact Soviet society approved of the Terror.)
--- On Wed, 7/9/08, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
> But even my and Doug's hero Teddy A. was not immune to
> Mitläufertum. Check this out:
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> http://www.principiadialectica.co.uk/blog/?p=168
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> Adorno The Mandarin
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> Jens Hagestedt writes: “In 1933 Theodor Adorno wrote a
> highly compromising text (that fortunately was never
> published) to encourage those in charge of the then
> ’streamlined’ radio of the German dictatorship to use
> their powers to put an end ‘once and for all’ to what
> was rather indelicately referred to as ‘Schlager’
> (German pop music ‘hits’) and to ’sweep such spookily
> alienated musical products from their programmes.”
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> >From the German magazine Merkur
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