Adorno packed Frankfurt theory into the Berkeley study at proof stage

Evidence

It was the Berkeley study that included most of Adorno and Horkheimer’s theory. This was due partly to the chapter by Adorno on the qualitative analysis of the interviews, and partly to the fact that Adorno ensured that Sanford and Levinson `in addition packed as many of our ideas as they could into their quantitative chapters’ at the proof-reading stage. It was also due partly to the extensive corrections which Adorno used at the last minute as a way of trying to ensure that the book had some coherence. The idea of having one book had only taken the place of the idea of a series of individual publications as the work progressed, and the book was made up of chapters which had been left to the individual contributors to write. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1760

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• XREF: connects to: Adorno welcomed research designed so its findings would double as anti-fascist propaganda — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1593; The Berkeley study first united Frankfurt theory with empirical research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1759