Horkheimer considered Adorno the only true collaborator on logic besides Marcuse

Evidence

Towards the end of 1935 Horkheimer wrote to Pollock from Paris, where he had met Adorno: Despite a number of disturbing aspects, the source of which lies in his personality, it seems to me a matter of necessity for me to collaborate with him; he is the only person capable of collaborating on completing the logic, apart from the assistance I have from Marcuse. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 179

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  • XREF: Connects to the reader’s prior notes on Horkheimer’s suppression of Fromm’s worker study and his preference for a philosophical collaborator over empirical researchers. — connects to: Horkheimer saw Adorno as indispensable for completing the logic project — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 641

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