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Kriminalität.SeeGesammelte Schriften,vol. XI (Noten zur Literatur III), p. 383;
Notes to Literature, vol. II, p. 53.
27 Kraus, Untergang der Welt,p.200.
28 Ibid., p. 204.
29 This has been succinctly summarized, with reference to the role of Liliencron
as a model in the argument, by Uta Schaub, in ‘Liliencron und Heine im Urteil
von Karl Kraus. Ein Beitrag zum Problem der literarischen Wertung’, HJb 18
(1979), pp. 191–201
2 the biographical imperative: theodor adorno
1 Adorno, Gesammelte Schriften, vol. XI, pp. 95–100: p.100; Notes to Literature,
vol. I, p. 85.
2 SeeDerrida’s remark: ‘Comment dater ce qui ne se répète pas si la datation fait
aussi appel à quelque forme de retour, si elle rappelle dans la lisibilité d’une
répétition? Mais comment dater autre chose que cela même qui jamais ne se
répète?’ in Schibboleth (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1986), p. 13.
3 See Gerhard Höhn, ‘Adorno face àHeine ou le couteau dans la plaie’, Revue
d’ésthetique, n.s. 8 (1985), pp. 137–44. Myaccount is greatly indebted to this
paper.
4 Adorno, Gesammelte Schriften,vol. XI, p. 95; Notes to Literature, vol. I, p. 80.
5 Paul Peters suggests Adorno’s complicity in this anti-Semitism, but presents
little textual evidence of George’s anti-Semitic position. See Heinrich Heine
‘Dichterjude’. Die Geschichte einer Schmähung (Frankfurt am Main: A. Hain,
1990), pp. 160, 166–71.
6 Adorno, Gesammelte Schriften,vol. XI, p. 95; Notes to Literature, vol. I, p. 80.
7 Kraus, Untergang der Welt,p.196.
8 Adorno, Gesammelte Schriften,vol. XI, p. 96; Notes to Literature, vol. I, p. 81.
9 Peters notes Kraus’s self-distancing from the ‘proletarian’ Heine, Heinrich Heine
‘Dichterjude’, p.152. Heine’s resistance to puritanical politicians is evident in
his polemic against Börne: see chapter 5 below.
10 Adorno, Gesammelte Schriften,vol. XI, p. 97; Notes to Literature, vol. I, p. 82.
11 Adorno, Gesammelte Schriften, vol. XI, p. 96; Notes to Literature vol. I, p. 83
(translation modified).
12 Adorno, Gesammelte Schriften,vol. XI, pp. 96–7; Notes to Literature vol. I, p. 81.
13 Benjamin, Gesammelte Schriften,vol. II.1,pp.336–7; ‘Karl Kraus’, p. 435.
14 See Erich Mayser, H. Heines ‘Buch der Lieder’ im 19. Jahrhundert (Stuttgart:
Akademischer Verlag Heinz, 1978); Alberto Destro, ‘Das Buch der Lieder
und seine Leser’ in Luciano Zagari and Paolo Chiarini (eds.), Zu Heinrich
Heine (Stuttgart: Klett, 1981), pp. 59–73. For an overview, see Gerhard Höhn,
Heine Handbuch. Zeit – Person – Werk, 2nd edition (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1997),
pp. 76–79.
15 Adorno, Gesammelte Schriften,vol. XI, p. 97; Notes to Literature, vol. I, p. 82.
16 Adorno, Gesammelte Schriften,vol. XI, p. 96; Notes to Literature, vol. I, p. 81.