Minima Moralia was composed as sequential birthday gifts to Horkheimer, 1945-1947

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’. These later formed the first part of Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life, the second part of which Horkheimer was given as a Christmas present in 1945, with the dedication `For Max: for the journey back’. The third part was written in 1946 and 1947. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 395

Categorization

• XREF: Fills out the composition history of Minima Moralia, a text cited repeatedly elsewhere in this institutional history. — connects to: Minima Moralia originated as birthday gifts to Horkheimer from Adorno — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1571; Minima Moralia was written as a covert continuation of the Adorno-Horkheimer collaboration. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 418
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Minima Moralia originated as birthday gifts to Horkheimer from Adorno — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1571; Minima Moralia was written as a covert continuation of the Adorno-Horkheimer collaboration. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 418

Broader Connections

• Minima Moralia originated as birthday gifts to Horkheimer from Adorno #corroborates (0.98) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1571