Adorno treats exchange as a principle shaping thought and feeling to the innermost being.

Evidence

Also included in the final publication are another set of aphorisms originating between 1946–7, composing its third section. Together, these aphorisms explore the question of ‘whether man was made merely to exchange’ along with exchange itself – both as an action, but also primarily as a principle which has come to undergird the thinking and feeling of individuals, shaping them in its own image all the way down to their innermost being. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 930

Categorization

• XREF: This is exchange as a totalizing social principle, echoing Marx’s commodity fetishism and linking to the political economy critique central to this revisionist project. — connects to: Adorno saw formal logic as a social artifact mirroring commodity exchange. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 266; Adorno’s 1931 inaugural lecture made the commodity-form central to social knowledge. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 182; Adorno proposed that modern consumption targets exchange-value itself. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 447 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno extends Marx by linking systemic antagonisms to every individual’s consciousness #expands (0.82) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1389
• Adorno made instrumental reason a transhistoric urge rather than a capitalist product #expands (0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 380