ABSTRACT
I first heard of the Frankfurt School in the 1930s but decided then, on the basis of some experimental reading, against conscientiously reading its output. In 1960, as I have recounted in my “Reason or Revolution?”, I was asked to open a discussion at a conference in Tübingen, and I was told that Adorno would reply to my paper.1 This led me to another attempt at reading the publications of the Frankfurt School and especially Adorno’s books.
