Contingent publishing disappointments shaped what the Dialectic of Enlightenment volume contained.

Evidence

Everything to be included in the mimeographed volume was to be ready by the beginning of the lectures. Since there was no prospect of publishing the results of the first year of work on the anti-Semitism project, and there were also hopes that the project would be continued in an expanded form, the theses on anti-Semitism were incorporated into the complex of studies included in the mimeographed dialectics volume. In contrast, pieces on dialectical logic, the concept Horkheimer had always seen as the central point of the book he planned, were among the parts left out. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1361

Categorization

• XREF: Explains why the anti-Semitism theses appear inside the volume — ties to the larger anti-Semitism project strand of the institute’s history. — connects to: Dialectic of Enlightenment became more negativistic than its authors originally planned. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1341; Dialectic of Enlightenment was republished with its anti-capitalist vocabulary softened. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1362; Dialectic of Enlightenment began as a provisional fragment collection rather than a finished work — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 741

Broader Connections

• Dialectic of Enlightenment began as a provisional fragment collection rather than a finished work #expands (0.82) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 741