Minima Moralia originated as birthday gifts to Horkheimer from Adorno

Evidence

In February 1945 Adorno made the same gesture to Horkheimer which the two of them had made to Pollock the year before: on his fiftieth birthday, he presented him with a book dedicated to him which was full of his own' workMinima Moraliawith the handwritten note: Fifty aphorisms for the fiftieth birthday of Max Horkheimer, Los AngelesNew York, 14 February 1945’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1571

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