The Nazi takeover destroyed Adorno’s plan to make the journal the circle’s organ.
Evidence
(The Nazi takeover and the Institute’s emigration had destroyed Adorno’s hope, which he mentioned to Kracauer as late as January 1933, that the journal, whose philosophy review section he was now officially in charge of along with Horkheimer, could be
turned into our official organ'.The people around us will be very decent,’ Adorno wrote to Kracauer, encouraging him to join them. `Benjamin and Lukács are with us, I’m taking over most of the philosophy reviews myself, I’ve dismissed all the incompetent people and I want to get real talents like Sternberger and Marcuse involved instead.’) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 153
Categorization
- QUESTION: What became of Adorno’s claim that he had ‘dismissed all the incompetent people’ — did this purge actually reshape the journal’s review section?
- XREF: connects to: A Nazi ministerial decree stripped Adorno of his right to teach.
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A Nazi ministerial decree stripped Adorno of his right to teach.
Broader Connections
- A Nazi ministerial decree stripped Adorno of his right to teach.
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