Marcuse’s Freud book reached German publication without Adorno’s editorial control

Evidence

But Marcuse was not Benjamin, nor was he in Benjamin’s situation. Perhaps a version changed to meet Adorno’s requirements might have been an improvement in some waysjust as Benjamin’s article on Baudelaire for the ZfS had been. But would it have been an improvement in terms of Marcuse’s requirements? The German edition of Marcuse’s Freud book appeared in 1957 with the publishers Ernst Klett under the title Eros und Kultur. (In later editions the title was changed to Triebstruktur und Gesellschaft (Instinctual Structure and Society).) The relationship between Marcuse and the directors of the Institute became even more fragile. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2129

Categorization

• QUESTION: The parallel drawn between Marcuse and Benjamin’s Baudelaire revision suggests Adorno’s editorial demands could improve a text against its author’s own interests — worth chasing how Marcuse diverged from Benjamin’s submissiveness.