Adorno rejected the immediate mapping of art content onto economic social history

Evidence

Adorno’s criticism of Benjamin’s first essay on Baudelaire was directed, among other things, at the method of referring the pragmatic contents in Baudelaire immediately to related aspects of the social history of his time, preferably to those of an economic nature'. His own essays must therefore be seen as models of how he conceived the task of carrying out a materialist determination of cultural characteristics’ `by examining the general social and economic trends of the age’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 878

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to debates around vulgar Marxism and mediation in Critical Theory; echoes the methodological critiques discussed in earlier chapters on the Institute’s research program. — connects to: Adorno held that classicist theory fails to capture actual bourgeois art practice — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 913; Adorno’s Marxist musical theory avoided analyzing actual sociological ties between music and society. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 368; Adorno refused to treat economic primacy as a static anthropological constant — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1178 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno’s aesthetic method skipped societal mediation by folding all social content into single artworks #contradicts (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 882
• Adorno refused to treat economic primacy as a static anthropological constant #corroborates (0.85) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1178