Adorno established philosophy-of-history music aesthetics and social-theoretical literary criticism in postwar Germany

Evidence

With his Philosophy of Modern Music, Adorno founded a tradition in the aesthetics of music that was oriented towards the philosophy of history. … His radio talk on `Poetry and Society’, broadcast by RIAS (Radio in the American Sector) in Berlin in 1951, inaugurated an approach to interpreting literary works on the basis of social theory that was new in the Federal Republic, where immanent or ontologically based interpretations dominated. … By contrast, in 1956 he published the study of Husserl he had begun when he was living in England, Against Epistemology: A MetacritiqueStudies in Husserl and the Phenomenological Antinomiesa work that met the strictest academic standards. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2172

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader Frankfurt School history of Adorno’s postwar intellectual production across aesthetics, epistemology, and sociology. — connects to: Adorno’s musical method could ground an intrinsic Marxist literary criticism — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 755; Adorno’s Philosophy of Modern Music shaped the Frankfurt School’s shared project. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1237