Adorno read avant-garde literary form as anticipating a free, reconciled society
Evidence
In the dissolution of the interior monologue, of objectless inwardness, carried out in literature by Rimbaud, by the surrealists and, finally and most radically of all, by Beckett, and in a stream of language that went bouncing back and forth, Adorno saw an approach to the ultimate reconciliation of the individual with the beneficent generality, a free society. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 557
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization and the broader Frankfurt project of locating utopian possibility in aesthetic form. — connects to: Adorno read Kierkegaard’s aesthetic as a proto-materialist seed of world-change.; Adorno prized Bloch’s Utopian Spirit for fusing philosophy with advanced literature; Adorno treated artistic modernism as anticipating a free society — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2229 (+5 more)
- SEED: Angle: how the dissolution of interior monologue in Rimbaud through Beckett was read as a political rather than merely stylistic movement.
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno read Kierkegaard’s aesthetic as a proto-materialist seed of world-change.; Adorno prized Bloch’s Utopian Spirit for fusing philosophy with advanced literature; Adorno treated artistic modernism as anticipating a free society — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2229 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Adorno treated artistic modernism as anticipating a free society
#corroborates(1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2229 - Adorno’s essayistic free thought was a utopia that avoided empirical engagement
#complicates(0.74) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2287