Adorno’s utopia keeps exchange but makes every exchange just

Evidence

Given his belief that ‘[it certainly cannot be said that] exchange will have ceased to take place’ in a post-capitalist society, it is much rather the case that in Adorno’s utopia, every exchange would be just in itself, without particular justice being annulled by a totality superordinate to all individuals. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1559

Categorization

• XREF: Directly contradicts the ‘pessimistic cul-de-sac’ reading of Adorno that this book aims to counter. — connects to: Adorno’s identification of exchange with identity logic is meta-economic, not capitalist — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1298; Adorno’s utopian turn is misread by social science as resignation — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1522; Adorno saw formal logic as a social artifact mirroring commodity exchange. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 266 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The sphere of exchange generates capitalism’s spontaneous commonsense and bourgeois theory #expands (0.78)
• Adorno saw formal logic as a social artifact mirroring commodity exchange. #corroborates (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 266