Page "Theodor W. Adorno" Paragraph 35

In September 1968 Adorno went to Vienna for the publication of Alban Berg: Master of the Smallest Link.

Upon his return to Frankfurt, events prevented his concentrating upon the book on aesthetics he wished to write: " Valid student claims and dubious actions ," he wrote to Marcuse, " are all so mixed up together that all productive work and even sensible thought are scarcely possibly any more.

" After striking students threatened to strip the Institute's sociology seminar rooms of their furnishings and equipment, the police were brought in to close the building.