Adorno’s thought begins from philosophy surviving its own death in an interregnum.

Evidence

The situation of the interregnum which philosophy has gotten into – that is, philosophy surviving its death, not uncontested yet also not illegitimate – is where Adorno begins. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1208

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘interregnum’ — philosophy surviving its death — as the starting condition of Adorno’s enterprise.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno’s final philosophy denied the achievability of salvation while keeping its standpoint — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 836; Adorno’s 1969 death ended the Institute-centered form of Critical Theory — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2748; A materialist utopian philosophy must reckon with death and sacrifice to survive. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 262

Broader Connections

• Adorno’s final philosophy denied the achievability of salvation while keeping its standpoint #expands (0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 836