Horkheimer saw his and Adorno’s thinking converge on tears and music.

Evidence

It was precisely in the most exposed section of Adorno’s essaywhere he spoke of letting oneself go in tears and in musicthat Horkheimer saw the strongest evidence for the fact that his own trains of thought and Adorno’s were mysteriously converging, even while the two men were separated. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1282

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader story of collaborative intellectual convergence between Horkheimer and Adorno during their American exile, later crystallizing in Dialectic of Enlightenment.