Adorno resigned film-book co-authorship to avoid martyrdom for Eisler’s cause

Evidence

Horkheimer and Adorno, as naturalized American citizens, were under no threat of deportation or internment in the way that Eisler or Brecht were. But their cautiousness was enhanced by events such as these. Thomas Mann founded a committee to support Hanns Eisler. Adorno, by contrast, resigned from his co-authorship of Composing for the Films, which was first published in the United States in 1947, on the grounds that he had no reason to become a martyr for a cause which was not his ownas he stated in 1969 in the afterword to his own German edition of the bookand because he and Eisler had been friends only as musicians and had avoided discussing politics. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1671

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with Mann’s public committee support — the Institute’s caution under political threat. — connects to: Adorno distanced himself from Eisler to avoid persecution — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1671; Adorno distanced himself from Eisler over his brother’s Communist ties — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 1445

Broader Connections

• Adorno distanced himself from Eisler to avoid persecution #expands (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1671
• Adorno distanced himself from Eisler over his brother’s Communist ties #corroborates (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 1445