Adorno’s Minima Moralia measures economic rationality against suppressed subjective potential.

Evidence

As a consequence, Adorno describes the ‘specific approach of Minima Moralia’ astheattempttopresentaspectsof philosophy‘fromthestandpointof subjectiveexperience’.20Accordingtothisapproach,‘thestateof societydominatedby the instrumental rationality of economic calculation is measured with regards to the compromised and submerged possibilities of subjective reaction, possibilities to which subjects themselves are subordinated’. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 929

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the specific approach of Minima Moralia as philosophy from the standpoint of subjective experience — precisely the kind of contested term definition this revisionist project needs.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno prioritized critique of dead-end economic theory over new economic research — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 505; Adorno framed Minima Moralia explicitly as a response to monopoly capitalism. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 907; Social organization displaces autonomous moral drive with instrumental and procedural rationality — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 612

Broader Connections

• Social organization displaces autonomous moral drive with instrumental and procedural rationality #complicates (0.78) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 612