Adorno defended unarticulated cultural elements against pressure to adjust to reality.

Evidence

In Veblen, a technocratic Marxist' (as Dahrendorf called him), whose idea had been to contrast the engineer with the leisure class, Adorno attempted to protectfrom the pressures of dreamless adjustment and adaptation to reality’ 130those unarticulated elements of culture in which he saw the necessities of natural forces breaking through, an emancipation from the realm of ends and purposes. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 334

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the specific target and method of Adorno’s Veblen essay within the dialectic of culture and barbarism.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno held that inwardness serves reification by denying real history. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 260; Adorno faulted Veblen for demanding culture’s emancipation from tradition too soon — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1302; Adorno rejected prima philosophia while defending a strict concept of real theory — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1200 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno held that inwardness serves reification by denying real history. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 260; Adorno faulted Veblen for demanding culture’s emancipation from tradition too soon — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1302; Adorno rejected prima philosophia while defending a strict concept of real theory — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1200 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno held that inwardness serves reification by denying real history. #complicates (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 260