Adorno used the messianic adjustment legend as early as 1942 to explain his philosophy

Evidence

Adorno invokes this theologoumenon as early as 1942 in a letter to Edward M. David, the translator of the English version of his essay on Spengler, in order to clarify a difficult passage of the text: ‘Think of the Jewish legend: when the [Messiah] comes everything will be exactly as it is today, but the whole will be a very very little different’. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1540

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘very very little different’ messianic legend is also central to Walter Benjamin’s thought; ties to the Bloch-Scholem-Kafka chain in the next paragraphs. — connects to: Adorno’s basic philosophical positions were fixed before his American emigration — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 298

Broader Connections

• Adorno’s basic philosophical positions were fixed before his American emigration #corroborates (0.78) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 298