What nationality was the man for whose fiftieth birthday the book Minima Moralia was originally written for ?
Minima Moralia Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life (German: "Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben" ) is a 1951 book by Theodor W. Adorno and a seminal text in Critical Theory. Adorno started writing it during World War II, in 1944, while he lived as an exile in America, and completed it in 1949. It was originally written for the fiftieth birthday of his friend and collaborator Max Horkheimer, who had co-authored the earlier book "Dialectic of Enlightenment" with Adorno.
Vincenzo Filliucci Vincenzo Filliucci ("Filiutius"; Siena, 1566 – Rome, 5 April 1622) was an Italian Jesuit moralist. The "Provincial Letters" of Blaise Pascal, and "Les Extraits des Assertions", make much out of their quotations from his writings.