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Notes
1. Adorno’s father was an assimilated Jew who converted to the Protestant faith; his mother a Catholic Corsican.
2. Schopenhauer greatly admired Hume to the extent of modelling his own German prose on his style. Accordingly, he was familiar with Hume’s barbed quip “Reason is, and ought only to be, a slave of the passions,” in A Treatise of Human Understanding (2.3.3.4).
3. It may be remarked incidentally that this did not result from Schopenhauer’s studies of Indian thought while writing The World as Will and Imagination, which was the fruit of his youth and completed when he was merely twenty-six years old. Rather, the Indian connection was established several years later and went into revisions of the work in its two subsequent republications.
4. Adorno, Prisms, chap. 1, “Cultural Criticism and Society.”
5. Zuidervaart, Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory, 173.
6. Adorno, Negative Dialectics, 369–76.
7. Lampooning Schopenhauer’s theodicy, which contains Voltaire’s arguments against Leibniz’s assertion that ‘logically’ the world as it exists must be ‘the best’, as God in His infinite wisdom chose to create it in the form in which it exists.
8. Adorno, Negative Dialectics, 353.
9. Ibid., 355.
10. Ibid., 360.
11. Ibid., 362.