Adorno’s blanket dismissal of mass art matched Benjamin’s overpraise in one-sidedness

Evidence

When Adorno, who was concerned with the thorough dialecticization and rescue precisely of what was most reified, declared jazz and mass art to be unrescuable, this seemed arbitrary, and sprang from a point of view which was negatively just as one-sided as Benjamin’s positive view of film. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 872

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno and Benjamin independently converged on the same cultural-critique objects from opposite directions — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 348

Broader Connections

• Adorno and Benjamin independently converged on the same cultural-critique objects from opposite directions #corroborates (0.85) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 348