Minima Moralia was written as a covert continuation of the Adorno-Horkheimer collaboration.

Evidence

Adorno was also the one who on his own initiative continued their philosophical workin Minima Moralia. In the `Dedication’ to the book, which was first published in 1951 in Germany, he wrote: The composition took place in a phase when, bowing to outward circumstances, we had to interrupt our work together. This book wishes to demonstrate gratitude and loyalty by refusing to acknowledge the interruption. It bears witness to a dialogue intérieur: there is not a motif in it that does not belong as much to Horkheimer as to him who found the time to formulate it. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 418

Categorization

• DEFINE: Adorno’s own term ‘dialogue intérieur’ describes the book as shared authorship despite single-handed composition.
• XREF: connects to: Minima Moralia was composed as sequential birthday gifts to Horkheimer, 1945-1947 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 395; Adorno wrote Minima Moralia for Horkheimer as a shared reckoning with the postwar situation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 418; Minima Moralia originated as birthday gifts to Horkheimer from Adorno — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1571
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Minima Moralia was composed as sequential birthday gifts to Horkheimer, 1945-1947 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 395; Adorno wrote Minima Moralia for Horkheimer as a shared reckoning with the postwar situation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 418; Minima Moralia originated as birthday gifts to Horkheimer from Adorno — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1571