Adorno’s paradoxes collapse into sentimentality through their reliance on a cultured nature

Evidence

Ultimately, Adorno’s challenging paradoxes appeared futile, in view of their repeated appeal to the existence of a cultured form of nature … With forms of cultivated nature such as these, was the vision of humanity going weeping and singing into the alienated world not a piece of pointless sentimentality? — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 329

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• XREF: connects to: Adorno’s music theory ultimately appeals to a cultured composing ear — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2213; Horkheimer and Adorno traced the crisis of modern culture to humanity’s rule over nature — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 357; Adorno valued avant-garde provocation because authentic despair in art foreshadows reality’s collapse. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 552 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno’s music theory ultimately appeals to a cultured composing ear — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2213; Horkheimer and Adorno traced the crisis of modern culture to humanity’s rule over nature — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 357; Adorno valued avant-garde provocation because authentic despair in art foreshadows reality’s collapse. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 552 (+1 more)