Adorno’s 1951 radio talk introduced socially grounded literary interpretation to West Germany

Evidence

His radio talk on `Poetry and Society’, broadcast by RIAS (Radio in the American Sector) in Berlin in 1951, inaugurated an approach to interpreting literary works on the basis of social theory that was new in the Federal Republic, where immanent or ontologically based interpretations dominated. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 535

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s notes on Adorno’s literary essays and the ‘no longer possible’ claims about postwar German culture. — connects to: Adorno read postwar German intellectual enthusiasm as substitute gratification — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 430; Adorno deliberately promoted a historical-philosophical method of art interpretation in postwar West Germany — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 547; Adorno established philosophy-of-history music aesthetics and social-theoretical literary criticism in postwar Germany — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2172 (+2 more)
• DEFINE: Contrasts social-theoretical interpretation with immanent and ontological modes dominant in the early Federal Republic.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno read postwar German intellectual enthusiasm as substitute gratification — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 430; Adorno deliberately promoted a historical-philosophical method of art interpretation in postwar West Germany — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 547; Adorno established philosophy-of-history music aesthetics and social-theoretical literary criticism in postwar Germany — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2172 (+2 more)