Lukács’s historical philosophy shaped Adorno’s music aesthetics

Evidence

But Adorno found in Lukács a form of philosophical thinking about history which in the late 1920s was an inspiration for his ideas on the philosophy of music and musical progress. The author of History and Class Consciousness whom Adorno visited in 1925, however, was not even prepared to defend his earlier Hegelian attempt to bring the philosophical content of Marxist theory up to date. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 325 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

In any case, already in Adorno and Lukács’s conversation, personal aversions and theoretical differences emerge which would never again be overcome. Here, one can discern not only ‘the germ of Lukács’s future rejection of ontological realism’, but also Adorno’s recurring ‘critique of Lukács’s “partyconformism”’. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 116 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Adorno’s early work largely adopts Lukácsian social critique’s focus on the commodity-form. As will now be seen, this is made evident ‘by both his 1936 “On Jazz” and 1938 “On the Fetish-Character in Music and the Regression of Listening”, two works of music criticism in which Adorno becomes the first Marxist theoretician following Lukács to harness the possibilities of commodity-form analysis’. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 151 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno reframed Lukács’s class-centered Hegelian Marxism into speculative self-recognition; Lukács’s philosophy of history inspired Adorno’s musical criticism in the late 1920s. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 325; Adorno was the first Marxist after Lukács to apply commodity-form analysis to music — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 151 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Lukács’s philosophy of history inspired Adorno’s musical criticism in the late 1920s. #corroborates (0.96) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 325
• Adorno’s early encounter with Lukács seeded a lifelong theoretical rift #complicates (0.84) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 116
• Adorno was the first Marxist after Lukács to apply commodity-form analysis to music #expands (0.82) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 151
• Adorno demanded theoretical mediation between superstructure and substructure in historical materialism. #expands (0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 280