Adorno fused Lukács, Kracauer, and Benjamin to justify Schoenberg’s musical revolution.

Evidence

Lukács’s Hegelianizing theory of class consciousness from the point of view of the philosophy of history, Kracauer’s critique of half-hearted capitalist rationalization, and Benjamin’s contrasting of mythic nature and the sober light of redemption, were all combined by Adorno to justify Schoenberg’s revolution in music. He presented this revolution as a `rational execution, by the most advanced consciousness, of the historic compulsion to purify its material of the corruption of the decayed organic’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 365

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relevant background on how critical theorists constructed vanguard art claims.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 365
• XREF: connects to: Lukács’s philosophy of history inspired Adorno’s musical criticism in the late 1920s. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 325; Adorno read Schoenberg’s musical revolution as allied with Freud and Kraus; Adorno placed Schoenberg’s artistic project on par with Freud and Karl Kraus — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 980 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno read Schoenberg’s musical revolution as allied with Freud and Kraus #expands (0.82)
• Adorno placed Schoenberg’s artistic project on par with Freud and Karl Kraus #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 980
• Adorno read Schoenberg’s atonality as refusing social compromise. #expands (0.78) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 555
• Adorno read Schoenberg’s twelve-tone technique as demythologizing rationalization. #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 365
• Adorno, Benjamin, Lukács, and Sartre form one vaster dialectical synthesis #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 633
• Adorno overgeneralized Schoenberg’s music as the sole legitimate musical material. #expands (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1259