Adorno framed the subject’s choice as rigidification or dissolution in nature.
Evidence
In Adorno’s manuscript there was only space to pose an alternative between the loneliness of the rigidified subject and the self-dissolution of the subject in nature. It might be possible to see some significance in this for the field of music. But, in other fields, the question was whether there was any way of dealing with outward and inward nature, or any way for subjects to deal with one another, and whether such possibilities must not in any case be distinguished from dealings with the non-human elements of nature. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1281
Categorization
- DEFINE: Captures the core Adornian dilemma — rigidified subjecthood versus self-dissolution in nature — central to his music theory and social critique.
- XREF: connects to: Adorno held that salvation comes from radicalizing rigidification while preserving spontaneity. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2194
Broader Connections
- Adorno held that salvation comes from radicalizing rigidification while preserving spontaneity.
#complicates(0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2194