Adorno’s late books aimed to create works whose contents rebel against the work

Evidence

His long books on the fundamentals of dialectics and aesthetics also sprang from an attempt to resolve the paradoxobserved, for example, in his Philosophy of Modern Musicthat the only works that counted today were those that no longer constituted works. Adorno was attempting to resolve this paradox in the spirit of his music teacher, Alban Berg, and to create great forms, works in fact, whose contents rebelled against the work. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2526

Categorization

• DEFINE: Articulates the paradox governing Adorno’s late project: great forms whose contents rebel against the work form.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno sought great forms whose content rebelled against the work itself — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2526

Broader Connections

• Adorno sought great forms whose content rebelled against the work itself #corroborates (0.98) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2526