Inhuman art can oppose inhumanity rather than abet it.
Evidence
However, `as long as art still trembles like the voice of humanity’, he was confronted with the problem of how to distinguish between art that accepted inhumanity, on the one hand, and inhuman art that was nevertheless implacably opposed to inhumanity, on the other. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 540
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: The criterion for sorting complicit art from resistant art is the crux of Adorno’s aesthetics and resists any quick paraphrase.
- DEFINE: This is the conceptual problem Adorno’s dialectic of art and inhumanity addresses.