Committed literary theory treating modernism as anticipatory had few 1950s counterparts.

Evidence

But this did give Adorno’s literary-theoretical works a degree of social relevance, an interest in topical events and a momentum of commitment to the project of modernism in art as an anticipation of a free society that was lacking in most other publications on literary theory during the 1950s. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 550

Categorization

• XREF: Links Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment framework to his concrete literary-critical output — the institutional-intellectual bridge the reader is tracing.