Adorno recovered theological motifs materialistically for post-Auschwitz metaphysics

Evidence

These ranged, in the `Meditations on Metaphysics’, from the dictum that after Auschwitz all culture is garbage, to a materialist recovery of theological motifs in ideas such as the materialist longing for the resurrection of the body, or the utopia of a world from which not only existing suffering had been removed, but to which things irrevocably past and gone had also been returned. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2569

Categorization

• XREF: The resurrection-of-the-body motif echoes the Dialectic of Enlightenment’s secret utopia within reason (ch49). — connects to: Post-Auschwitz metaphysics was forced to confront material bodily existence — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2572; Adorno saw personal experience as a valid basis for philosophy after Auschwitz — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2577; Adorno held that metaphysics must now confront bodily materiality and waste — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2572 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno held that metaphysics must now confront bodily materiality and waste #expands (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2572
• Adorno saw personal experience as a valid basis for philosophy after Auschwitz #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2577
• For Adorno, rigid materialism itself reifies and becomes ideology #qualifies (0.72) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1319
• Adorno chose substantive philosophy over a material theory of society #complicates (0.70) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2528