1984/01/01 by Martin Jay · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Critical Theory and Philosophy
paper · doi:10.2307/487894
The exemplary anecdotes are known to us all. Adorno arrived in America in 1938 to work on Paul Lazarsfeld's Princeton Radio Research Project. Lazarsfeld wrote of his new acquaintance: He looks as you would imagine a very absent-minded German professor, and he behaves so foreign that feel like a member of the Mayflower society.' Adorno traveled to the Project's offices in an abandoned brewery in Newark, New Jersey through a tunnel under the Hudson river and admitted: I felt a little as if were in Kafka's Nature Theater of