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1、introductiontoadorno&horkheimerAlife-longintellectualpartnershipbetweentwomajorthinkers,soclosethattheirmostcelebratedsingletextswereco-authoredandtheirnamesaredif-ficulttodissociate,israreenoughtorankasvirtuallyasportofhistory.Thereseemtobeonlytwocases:inthe19thcentury
2、,MarxandEngels,andinthe20thHorkheimerandAdorno.Mighttheyberegardedasprefigurationsofwhatinapost-bourgeoisworldwouldbecomelessuncommon?Theirpatternsdiffered.MarxandEngels,borntwoyearsapart,werecontemporaries;oncetheirfriendshipwasformed,collaborationbetweenthemnevercease
3、d.AdornowaseightyearsHorkheimer’sjunior,andacloseworkingrelationshipcamemuchlater,withmanymorevicissitudes:initialmeetingin1921,intermittentfrictionandexchangeuptothemid-1930s,concordonlyinAmericanexilefrom1938onwards,morepointedlydistinctidentitiesthroughout.Thegen-er
4、altrajectoryoftheFrankfurtInstituteforSocialResearchiswellknown,asovertime‘criticaltheory’—originallyHorkheimer’scode-wordforMarxism—confineditselftotherealmsofphilosophy,sociologyandaesthetics;toallappearancescompletelydetachedfrompolitics.Privatelyitwasotherwise,asthe
5、exchangebelowmakesclear.Thisuniquedocumentistherecord,takendownbyGretelAdorno,ofdiscussionsoverthreeweeksinthespringof1956,withaviewtotheproduc-tionof—asAdornoputsit—acontemporaryversionofTheCommunistManifesto.Informitmightbedescribed,werejazznotanathematoAdorno,asaphi
6、losophicaljam-session,inwhichthetwothinkersimprovisefreely,oftenwildly,oncentralthemesoftheirwork—theoryandpractice,labourandleisure,dominationandfreedom—inapoliticalregisterfoundnowhereelseintheirwriting.Amidacareeningfluxofarguments,aphorismsandasides,inwhichthetrench
7、antalternateswiththereckless,theplayfulwiththeingenuous,posi-tionsareswappedandcontradictionsunheeded,withoutanycompulsionforconsistency.Insubstance,eachthinkerrevealsadifferentprofile.Horkheimer,historicallymorepoliticized,wasbynowthemoreconservative,imbibingTimeonChin
8、a,ifnotyettothepointwherehewouldcommendtheKaiserforwarn-ingoftheYellowPeril.ThoughstillblamingtheWestforwhatwentwrong
