Horkheimer’s postwar academic output largely consisted of Adorno-drafted occasional pieces.

Evidence

These were the circumstances in which Horkheimer, wearing the rector’s chain of office, gave his speech `On the Concept of Reason’. Eclipse of Reason had been a popularized version, enriched by Adorno’s contributions, of the Dialectic of Enlightenment; the rector’s speech was an extract from Eclipse of Reason (which had been translated into German by Heinz Maus, but had not yet been published in Germany). One does not wish to take a speech given at a rectoral inauguration as a measure of what to expect of a person’s academic work; but what followed in the years to come was merely a series of lectures, speeches and other occasional pieces produced by a man much in demand, and they were often based on drafts written by Adorno. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1910

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader narrative of Horkheimer’s postwar ‘retreat’ from radical critique and his dependence on Adorno — a theme running through Frankfurt School histories and relevant to assessing the Institute’s institutional decline. — connects to: Adorno had achieved no professorship and remained dependent on Horkheimer by 1949 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1732; Adorno co-authored key Horkheimer essays on state capitalism — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 563; By the mid-1950s Horkheimer had become an iconic figure rather than an active author — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2005

Broader Connections

• Adorno co-authored key Horkheimer essays on state capitalism #corroborates (0.80) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 563
• Adorno had achieved no professorship and remained dependent on Horkheimer by 1949 #corroborates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1732