Theodor W. Adorno

One Last Genius

Detlev Claussen

Translated by Rodney Livingstone

    List of Illustrations

    How to Read This Book

    1. Instead of an Overture: No Heirs

    2. The House in Schoene Aussicht: A Frankfurt Childhood around 1910

    3. From Teddie Wiesengrund to Dr. Wiesengrund-Adorno

    4. Adorno as "Non-identical" Man

    5. Transitions

    Bertolt Brecht: "To Those Who Come after Us"

    Theodor W. Adorno: "Out of the Firing Line"

    Hanns Eisler, the Non-identical Brother

    Fritz Lang, the American Friend

    6. Frankfurt Transfer

    7. Adorno as "Identical" Man

    8. The Palimpsest of Life

    Appendix: Letters

    Theodor W. Adorno to Ernst Bloch, 26 July 1962

    Max Horkheimer to Theodor W. Adorno, 27 September 1958

    Theodor W. Adorno to Max Horkheimer, 14 February 1965

    Theodor W. Adorno to Claus Behncke, 21 February 1964

    Max Horkheimer to Otto O. Herz, 1 September 1969

    Notes

    Sources

    Acknowledgments

    Index

  • Cover: Theodor W. Adorno

Detlev Claussen is a journalist and a Professor of Social Theory, Culture, and Sociology at the University of Hanover.

Rodney Livingstone is Professor Emeritus in German Studies at the University of Southampton. He is well known as a translator of books by Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Max Weber, among others.