Adorno demanded Benjamin rework his flâneur passage against Marx’s commodity fetishism chapter

Evidence

In his critique of the first essay on Baudelaire, Adorno rightly demanded of Benjaminin view of Benjamin’s own high standardsthat he should go over the passage on the commodity and the flâneur once more, and `give it the greatest attention, confronting it in particular with Marx’s chapter on commodity fetishism in volume 1’ (of Capital). — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 236

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno demanded Benjamin ground his commodity-soul thesis in Marx’s Capital chapter on fetishism. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 290; Adorno faulted Benjamin for underestimating commodity-fetish power and dialectical mediations — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 869; Adorno read Benjamin’s arcades project as a radicalization of Marx’s commodity fetish — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 794 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno demanded Benjamin ground his commodity-soul thesis in Marx’s Capital chapter on fetishism. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 290; Adorno faulted Benjamin for underestimating commodity-fetish power and dialectical mediations — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 869; Adorno read Benjamin’s arcades project as a radicalization of Marx’s commodity fetish — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 794 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno demanded Benjamin ground his commodity-soul thesis in Marx’s Capital chapter on fetishism. #expands (0.95) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 290