Horkheimer and Adorno composed key texts by joint dictation to Gretel Adorno.

Evidence

The theses on anti-Semitism were given their final form using the same method as that used for a large part of the fragments of Dialectic of Enlightenment: Horkheimer and Adorno jointly dictated to Gretel Adorno. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1358

Categorization

• XREF: The dictated collaborative composition method prefigures similar accounts of how the two wrote together — a notable fact about the production of a canonical critical-theory text. — connects to: Adorno married a paid secretary who transcribed his dictated texts with Horkheimer.; Dialectic of Enlightenment was jointly dictated and finalized by Horkheimer and Adorno in person. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1347
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• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1358