Adorno never supplied criteria for distinguishing resigned acceptance from opposition

Evidence

Adorno tried to give a more or less transcendental justification for this demand for a living element, seeing it as a kind of condition of possibility for music. But this also failed to provide an answer to the question of what criteria were to be used to distinguish between an attitude of `that’s the way it is’ that was accepting of given conditions, and one that was implacably opposed to them. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 541

Categorization

• QUESTION: Does Adorno ever resolve this indeterminacy elsewhere, or is it a persistent structural weakness in his late aesthetics?
• XREF: connects to: Adorno could not specify criteria distinguishing resigned from oppositional art. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2195; Adorno’s critique of science never specified which sense of science he targeted. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 627; Adorno admitted the critique’s standpoint versus criticized standpoint was theoretically unclear
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno could not specify criteria distinguishing resigned from oppositional art. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2195; Adorno’s critique of science never specified which sense of science he targeted. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 627; Adorno admitted the critique’s standpoint versus criticized standpoint was theoretically unclear

Broader Connections

• Adorno could not specify criteria distinguishing resigned from oppositional art. #exemplifies (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2195