Adorno faulted Benjamin for collapsing artworks directly into economic social history
Evidence
Adorno’s criticism of Benjamin’s first essay on Baudelaire was directed, among other things, at the method of
referring the pragmatic contents in Baudelaire immediately to related aspects of the social history of his time, preferably to those of an economic nature'. His own essays must therefore be seen as models of how he conceived the task of carrying out amaterialist determination of cultural characteristics’ `by examining the general social and economic trends of the age’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 233
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the methodological core of Adorno’s cultural criticism — ‘materialist determination’ via broad social-economic trends rather than immediate economic decoding.
- XREF: Connects to the Walter Benjamin material already in the knowledge base from this same book — the Baudelaire essay dispute is a distinct episode from the arcades project quarrel. — connects to: Adorno faulted Benjamin for underestimating commodity-fetish power and dialectical mediations — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 869; Adorno rejected the immediate mapping of art content onto economic social history — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 878; Adorno’s criticisms of Benjamin’s Marxism reveal his own conception of Marxian critique — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 221 (+1 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno faulted Benjamin for underestimating commodity-fetish power and dialectical mediations — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 869; Adorno rejected the immediate mapping of art content onto economic social history — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 878; Adorno’s criticisms of Benjamin’s Marxism reveal his own conception of Marxian critique — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 221 (+1 more)