Adorno demanded a philosophy both concrete and transcendent to escape bourgeois immanence
Evidence
What Adorno did not consider either Bloch or Kracauer to be capable of (Kracauer’s book on Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of his Time, 110 written in exile in France, was devastatingly criticized by Adorno in a letter to his former mentor as a sorry effort aimed at sales success), he expected Benjamin to produce: a philosophy embodying a way out of the dream state of bourgeois immanence by being concrete and transcendent at once, by combining the density of experience with the rigour of thought. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 211
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the Adornian program for the Passagen-Werk: concreteness plus transcendence as the exit from the dream state of bourgeois immanence.
- XREF: Connects to debates on the dialectical image and to Adorno’s later critique of Benjamin’s Arcades material. — connects to: Adorno’s 1931 inaugural lecture grounded philosophy in the sciences without abstraction. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 112; Adorno’s philosophy of history held that transcendence is immanent in immanence. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 207; Adorno saw philosophy as unable to grasp totality yet kept it over social theory — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2532 (+8 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno’s 1931 inaugural lecture grounded philosophy in the sciences without abstraction. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 112; Adorno’s philosophy of history held that transcendence is immanent in immanence. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 207; Adorno saw philosophy as unable to grasp totality yet kept it over social theory — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2532 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Adorno chose substantive philosophy over a material theory of society
#complicates(0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2528 - Adorno pursued a free dialectic rather than a materialist one.
#complicates(0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2275 - Adorno saw philosophy as unable to grasp totality yet kept it over social theory
#complicates(0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2532 - Adorno demanded theoretical mediation between superstructure and substructure in historical materialism.
#complicates(0.74) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 280