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Adorno's American Reception

The main events of Theodor W. Adorno's American experience are so familiar that, as David Jenemann¹ points out, Martin Jay's groundbreaking 1973 text, The Dialectical Imagination,² which essentially introduced the Frankfurt School to an American audience, already describes these events as well-known. Max Horkheimer's Institut für Sozialforschung (the Institute, for short), which in its exile had been affiliated with Columbia University since 1935, arranged with the Austrian émigré sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld and the Rockefeller Foundation to bring Adorno to New York in 1938 to direct the musical section of the Princeton Radio Research Project, in exchange for financial support. In...