Adorno’s late aesthetics was shaped by disillusion with Brecht’s topical theatre.

Evidence

A visit to a new production of Brecht’s Threepenny Opera, which he now found incredibly dull and old-fashioned, increased his doubts about whether works created for the present moment were really capable of lasting. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 633

Categorization

• SHARE: A tidbit for the Brecht-versus-Adorno partisan in the reader’s life — Adorno found Threepenny Opera merely old-fashioned late in life.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno judged both Benjamin and Brecht ignorant of core Marxian theory — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 226
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno judged both Benjamin and Brecht ignorant of core Marxian theory — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 226