Private institutional writing can seed a thinker’s later published major works.

Evidence

Adorno completed an extensive essay on the Philosophy of Modern Music (Philosophie der neuen Musik) in 1941, which he had written without planning to publish it, simply to clarify his own thoughts for internal Institute discussions. He had shown it to outsiders such as Thomas Mann and Dagobert D. Runes, the editor of the Journal of Aesthetics, who was prepared to publish it in English. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 286

Categorization

• SHARE: For anyone who tracks Adorno’s road to Dialectic of Enlightenment, the irony that the unplanned internal memo on modern music was what he showed Thomas Mann.
• XREF: connects to: A thinker must be studied in works published under their own responsibility; Official documents reflect the vested interests of their authors — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 963
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A thinker must be studied in works published under their own responsibility; Official documents reflect the vested interests of their authors — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 963

Broader Connections

• Official documents reflect the vested interests of their authors #complicates (0.72) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 963