Adorno’s micrological-Messianic thought linked him to Benjamin, Kracauer, and Bloch

Evidence

Adorno represented a kind of micrological-Messianic thought, which closely associated him with Walter Benjamin (who, with Adorno’s assistance, became a contributor to the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung, and ultimately a member of the Institute) and also with Siegfried Kracauer and Ernst Bloch. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 12

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces and glosses ‘micrological-Messianic thought’ as the Adorno-Benjamin-Bloch current.
• XREF: Connects to Benjamin’s ‘weak Messianic power’ in Theses on the Philosophy of History and to scholarship relocating Adorno away from Marx toward Benjaminian messianism. — connects to: Adorno and Benjamin jointly pursued a dialectical dissolution of myth through inverse theology — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 868; Adorno broke with Benjamin by denying even a weak messianic power to history — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 837; Adorno, Benjamin, Lukács, and Sartre form one vaster dialectical synthesis — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 633 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno and Benjamin jointly pursued a dialectical dissolution of myth through inverse theology #exemplifies (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 868
• Bloch’s Utopian Spirit offered Adorno a magic-inflected philosophy beyond method #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 264
• Adorno valued Bloch’s philosophy for resisting method’s resignation. #expands (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 264
• Adorno broke with Benjamin by denying even a weak messianic power to history #qualifies (0.78) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 837
• Adorno, Benjamin, Lukács, and Sartre form one vaster dialectical synthesis #expands (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 633