Adorno’s aesthetic theory valued sudden transformation over the empirical concerns of his subjects

Evidence

Adorno’s texts are full of similar cases. … What tempted Adorno into this self-glorifying indifference to pleasanter aspects of the human objects of his analysis was the notion, which regularly appeared at the conclusion of his trains of thought, of bursting things open from within, of sudden transformation, of disturbance. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1024

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• XREF: connects to: Adorno’s utopian transformation ideal fueled his contempt for ordinary listeners — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1024