Adorno’s defense of avant-garde utopianism isolated him within the academic world

Evidence

What offended people about Adorno was the emphasis he gave to avant-garde literature as a means of giving trenchant expression to an unbearable and unnecessary form of realityinstead of rejecting such literature, or holding it at arm’s length, or treating it as merely a fresh variation on the theme of the eternal human crisis. Equally, his partisanship for modern art, and his defence of its utopianism, made him an outsider in the academic world. The remainder of those seriously interested in modern art were usually artists themselves, or correspondents of non-university newspapers and journals. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 557

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates the institutional marginalization of Critical Theory within the West German academy. — connects to: Adorno defended unarticulated cultural elements against pressure to adjust to reality. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 334; Adorno read avant-garde literary form as anticipating a free, reconciled society — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 557; Adorno’s essayistic free thought was a utopia that avoided empirical engagement — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2287 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno defended unarticulated cultural elements against pressure to adjust to reality. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 334; Adorno read avant-garde literary form as anticipating a free, reconciled society — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 557; Adorno’s essayistic free thought was a utopia that avoided empirical engagement — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2287 (+4 more)