Critics have long demanded that Adorno depict the good society he implies

Evidence

Thomas Mann once lamented to his ‘honoured friend’ Adorno that the latter’s work contains not even ‘a single positive word … that vouchsafed even the vaguest glimpse of the true society which we are forced to postulate’. In his response, Adorno refuses to construe for Mann - or for himself - what a better state might look like: If anything in Hegel, and in those who turned him right way up, has become part of my very flesh and blood, it is an asceticism with regard to any unmediated expression of the positive. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1481