Adorno extended Marx’s species-concept by deriving individuality itself from economic relations.

Evidence

For Marx, the human being is not constituted as a species in its relationship to the other. Adorno himself – for whom this passage perhaps first became relevant because of his interest in Marx’s concept of alienation – would subsequently go beyond its mediation between epistemology and intersubjectivity, analysing individuality itself as the result of economic relations. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1255

Categorization

• XREF: Links Marx’s alienation concept to Adorno’s economic analysis of individuality — the heart of the volume’s revisionist thesis. — connects to: Adorno extends Marx from coercive structures to the lived possibilities of individual self-determination. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 917; Adorno extends Marx by linking systemic antagonisms to every individual’s consciousness — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1389; Adorno held that individuals were so socialized that psychology dissolved into sociology. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1815 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno extends Marx by linking systemic antagonisms to every individual’s consciousness #expands (0.85) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1389