Adorno envisioned objectifying the subjective as art’s and society’s shared task

Evidence

Since the time of his music reviewing during the 1920s, he had seen the objectification of what was limitlessly subjective as the task both of art andequallyof society. The objectification of the object within a differentiatedly perceiving subjectthis was the comprehensive form that this task had taken on over the years, and for which Negative Dialectics was now presenting the most advanced solution. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 637

Categorization

• XREF: Ties Adorno’s 1920s music criticism to his mature philosophy — relevant to tracing the genealogy of his aesthetic theory. — connects to: Adorno’s claim that artworks rather than authors possess knowledge carried an unacknowledged philosophical optimism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 331; Adorno held that authentic poetry demands immersion in individuality to reach collective language — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 547; Adorno’s aesthetics unify the critiques of nature-domination and administered society — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2736 (+10 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno’s claim that artworks rather than authors possess knowledge carried an unacknowledged philosophical optimism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 331; Adorno held that authentic poetry demands immersion in individuality to reach collective language — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 547; Adorno’s aesthetics unify the critiques of nature-domination and administered society — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2736 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Phenomenological reduction yields a hybrid realm Adorno condemns as reified abstraction #complicates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 561
• Adorno saw philosophy as unable to grasp totality yet kept it over social theory #complicates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2532