Adorno held that authentic poetry demands immersion in individuality to reach collective language

Evidence

Adorno’s way of expressing the familiar maxims of artists and philosophers of art once again reappeared: filled with the experience of social reality, poetry must be written with the dream of feeling one’s way towards the sound . . . in which sufferings and dreams unite', while bearing witness to the fact that peace cannot be achieved without the dream shattering’. Poetry must be written while immersing oneself in individuality in order to become free of the limitations of self and share in language as the medium of the collective undercurrent, of benevolent generality, of undistorted humanity. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 547

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies Adorno’s technical dialectic: subjective immersion as the route to undistorted generality in language.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno framed jazz as ritualized submission of the individual to the collective — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 233; Adorno saw immersion in art theory as forcing a turn toward social theory — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 324; Adorno envisioned objectifying the subjective as art’s and society’s shared task — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 637 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno framed jazz as ritualized submission of the individual to the collective — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 233; Adorno saw immersion in art theory as forcing a turn toward social theory — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 324; Adorno envisioned objectifying the subjective as art’s and society’s shared task — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 637 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno treats exchange as a principle shaping thought and feeling to the innermost being. #complicates (0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 930
• Adorno read jazz syncopation as illusory individual breakout masking collective subjection #complicates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 879
• Adorno could not ground how the archaic impulse might grow into genuine individuality #complicates (0.71) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2568