Towards a new manifesto?

New Left Review

Volumn , Issue 65, 2010, Pages 33-61

  Adorno, Theodor ^a   Horkheimer, Max ^a  

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1. What follows are extracts from a transcript of discussions between Adorno and Horkheimer, dated between 12 March and 2 April 1956, which took place in Frankfurt. Reprinted with permission of Fischer Verlag from Max Horkheimer, Gesammelte Schriften, vol. 19: Nachträge, Verzeichnisse und Register, Frankfurt 1996, pp. 37-71. Section headings and footnotes are by the volume's editor, Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, unless otherwise indicated.
2. In Kant this is the purely formal, original, constantly identical self-consciousness that is presupposed in all ideas and concepts. See the Critique of Pure Reason, trans. Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood, §16, 'On the original synthetic unity of apperception', Cambridge 1997, p. 246ff.
3. Karl Kraus, Die Fackel, Nos. 406-412, 5 October 1915, p. 96.
4. According to Kant, marriage is 'the union of two persons of different sexes for lifelong possession of each other's sexual attributes': Metaphysics of Morals, ed. Mary Gregor, Cambridge 1996, p. 62.
5. 'No herdsman and one herd. Everyone wants the same thing. Everything is the same; whoever thinks otherwise goes voluntarily into the madhouse.' Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Harmondsworth 1961, p. 46.
6. Presumably a reference to the 1956 us Presidential election.
7. Horkheimer is probably referring to a blood-curdling Time magazine cover story: 'China: High Tide of Terror', 5 March 1956; he kept a copy of this issue in his archive. [nlr]
8. In the Preface to the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant states: 'Thus I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith. .. ' Critique of Pure Reason, p. 117.
9. Carlo Schmid (1896-1979): leading member of the Social Democratic Party
10. Aristotle distinguished between ethical and dianoetic virtues, i.e. practical as opposed to speculative reason
11. Paul Lazarsfeld (1901-1976): Austrian émigré sociologist, under whom Adorno worked on the Princeton Radio Research project; known for his empirical focus and entrepreneurial bent; Adorno described him as a 'research technician'. [nlr]
12. An echo of a metaphor used by Werner Sombart, also deployed on an earlier occasion by Horkheimer. See 'Die gegenwärtige Lage der Sozialphilosophie und die Aufgaben eines Instituts für Sozialforschung' (1931), in Horkheimer, Gesammelte Schriften, vol. 3, Frankfurt 1988, p. 26.
13. From a song in Adorno's Der Schatz des Indianer-Joe, Frankfurt 1979, pp. 33-4.