ABSTRACT
This volume brings together four texts written by Theodor Adorno between the late 1930s and the mid-1950s. The longest, “The Stars Down to Earth” is for the most part a content analysis of an astrology column in the Los Angeles Times which Adorno wrote in 1952-3 during a return visit to the United States from Germany. The shortest, “Theses Against Occultism,” is on a related but more general theme and was written in 1947 as part of Minima Moralia. “Research Project on Anti-Semitism,” a review of the dimensions and sources of modern anti-Semitism coauthored by Adorno, appeared in the journal of the Institute of Social Research in 1941.1 The title of the final piece, “AntiSemitism and Fascist Propaganda,” explains its topic clearly enough. Published in 1946, the paper draws extensively on a
much longer study which Adorno had written in 1943, but which was not published in his lifetime.2
