Adorno held that art anticipating despair moves reality toward change

Evidence

Avant-garde art was presumably no more important to him than a free society; but his passion for the new music, and a critical glance at social reality, made the progress of art seem the more obvious choice in his view. If art first gave authentic expression to the latest occasions for despair that were occurring in realityhe may finally have thoughtthen that reality could not long persist. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2236

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno’s ideal analyst pushes reality to extremes so hope emerges only in darkness — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1107; Adorno located society’s crucial problems within autonomous art as a model of salvation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 875; Adorno’s negative dialectics located emancipation’s hints in modern art’s distortion — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 380 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno’s negative dialectics located emancipation’s hints in modern art’s distortion #expands (0.90) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 380
• Adorno located society’s crucial problems within autonomous art as a model of salvation #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 875