Horkheimer wanted to publish the mass-culture chapter separately in English.

Evidence

From time to time, Horkheimer had considered publishing separately the chapter on mass culture, which had been conceived of as an independent pieceso great was his urge finally to bring out the initial results of their great collaborative study. He even intended to employ a translator, whose continuous activity as an adviser would make it possible for him to write the chapter in English to begin with. This was another project which remained unrealized and which made it clear how much Horkheimer and Adorno dreamed of being able to present themselves to an American public. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 346

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks to the Institute’s wider drive to reach an American public, foreshadowing Studies in Prejudice and the later self-censorship of Marxist vocabulary for US funders. — connects to: Horkheimer planned a mimeographed volume of the dialectics fragments. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 346
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer planned a mimeographed volume of the dialectics fragments. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 346