Atonal music embodied a premature reconciliation of mind and nature for Adorno

Evidence

Adorno drew his critical standards from the premature reconciliation between mind and nature which had taken place in atonal music, and he did not even attempt to explain its development in terms of social theory. He paid tribute to the real power of progress' by allowing the phase of atonal music, as a phase of expressionist statements, to transform itself necessarily’ into one of objectivity. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 328

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies what ‘premature reconciliation’ means for Adorno: a unity of mind and nature achieved in art ahead of its social possibility.
• XREF: Connects to Adorno’s broader thesis in Dialectic of Enlightenment about reason’s domination of inner nature. — connects to: Adorno read twelve-tone technique as progressive rationalization and demythologizing of music; Music symbolizes reconciliation between mind and nature, ending nature-domination — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 326; Music represents Adorno’s utopia of reconciled mind and nature — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1263 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno read twelve-tone technique as progressive rationalization and demythologizing of music; Music symbolizes reconciliation between mind and nature, ending nature-domination — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 326; Music represents Adorno’s utopia of reconciled mind and nature — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1263 (+3 more)