Archive - Substudies

Adorno-Horkheimer: Letters on the Style of Theory (Apr.-Sept. 1941)

Translation: 8 letters on the earliest drafts for Dialectic of Enlightenment.

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Pollock—Memo: La Trahison des Clerks* (1943)

Conversations with Tillich, Löwe, Horkheimer on affinities of intellect & domination.

Nov 13 •

Adorno and Benjamin: Reports from Paris (Aug. 1937).

Unified Science (8/4/1937); Congrès Descartes, Congress on Aesthetics (8/11/1937).

Nov 11 •

Horkheimer & Adorno—On the Critique of Language (Sept. 1941).

Letters towards a language-philosophical communism.

Nov 8 •

Horkheimer: On the Style of Theory (8/12/1942).

Letter to Tillich on method of presentation in the drafts with Adorno for the ‘Dialectic.’

Nov 6 •

Substudies: Under Construction.

About; Supporting Future Projects; Guide: Series on Substudies.

Nov 4 •

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Adorno—Review: Sternberger’s “Death Understood. An Investigation of Martin Heidegger’s Existential-Ontology.”(1932).

Towards an immanent critique of Heidegger’s “Entwurf des Daseins.”

Oct 30 •

Theodor W. Adorno—Contra Paulum (1944).

Draft for a critique of Paul Tillich’s “Man and Society in Religious Socialism” (1943).

Oct 30 •

Max Horkheimer—On Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-criticism (1928/29)

With Prefatory Remarks by Alfred Schmidt.

Oct 24 •

Themata Probanda I: Sketch of an alternate ending for Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960)

First in a series of occasional, critical studies of Marxist classics as I try to figure them out for myself.

Oct 20 •

Max Horkheimer: Lectures Towards a Psychology of Anti-Semitism (April, 1943).

+ Fragments with Adorno on the Study of A.S.; Letters on the Scientific Concept of the Research Project (1942/43).

Oct 10 •

Translation—Horkheimer and Adorno: Origin and End of the Individual (January 1939)

Seven discussions (ed. Gretel Adorno) towards the Dialectic of Enlightenment.

Oct 10 •

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