Adorno’s Philosophy of Modern Music shaped the Frankfurt School’s shared project.

Evidence

Adorno’s manuscript on The Philosophy of Modern Music' had enthralled Horkheimer so much that he wrote, If I ever felt enthusiasm for anything in my life, it was while reading this … This study will in the broadest sense form the basis for our common efforts.’ His collaboration with Adorno on the article had already become so close that Horkheimer was planning to publish it under both their names, but in the end an English version of it was published in the SPSS under Horkheimer’s name alone, with the more explicit German version appearing obscurely in the memorial volume for Benjamin. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1237

Categorization

• XREF: Indicates the German/English split publishing strategy of the Institute, relevant to its exile tactics. — connects to: Adorno’s arrival displaced Fromm and changed the Frankfurt School’s intellectual tone — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 353; Adorno established philosophy-of-history music aesthetics and social-theoretical literary criticism in postwar Germany — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2172; Adorno fused Lukács, Kracauer, and Benjamin to justify Schoenberg’s musical revolution. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 365 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno established philosophy-of-history music aesthetics and social-theoretical literary criticism in postwar Germany #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2172
• Adorno’s arrival displaced Fromm and changed the Frankfurt School’s intellectual tone #qualifies (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 353
• Adorno fused Lukács, Kracauer, and Benjamin to justify Schoenberg’s musical revolution. #expands (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 365
• Adorno read modernist music’s technical conflicts as symptoms of social disorder #expands (0.72)