Artworks are protohistories of subjectivity that advance enlightenment through enlightened means.
Evidence
The moral of Adorno’s philosophy of art, and of the continuation of the Dialectic of Enlightenment that he was carrying out in Aesthetic Theory, was: works of art were all protohistories of subjectivity that were striving in an enlightened way to accomplish enlightenment. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 685
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines Adorno’s late term ‘enlightened enlightenment’ and its application to artworks.
- XREF: connects to: Art and the humanities are special zones for practicing emancipatory attention. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 366; The collective’s dream consciousness is already doing what modern art consciously theorizes. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 226; Artworks can function as prostheses that train attention on the familiar environment — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 365 (+7 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Art and the humanities are special zones for practicing emancipatory attention. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 366; The collective’s dream consciousness is already doing what modern art consciously theorizes. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 226; Artworks can function as prostheses that train attention on the familiar environment — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 365 (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Art achieves objective revelation through subjective effort only at the cost of illusoriness
#complicates(0.88) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2742 - Art achieves what philosophy strives for, but only at the cost of illusion
#complicates(0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 687 - Spiritualized modern art converges with natural beauty
#complicates(0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2734