Minima Moralia made the nonconformist intellectual its central subject and hero.

Evidence

The existentialist' Marcuse was making himself into a spokesman of indignation about social injustice; Adorno, from a philosophy of life’ standpoint, was making himself into an advocate for the non-conformist intellectual. The variety of topics in the aphorisms showed that nothing was so small or extravagant, and nothing so large or difficult to comprehend, that an intellectual could and should not think about it. They led again and again into reflections about the radical modern intellectual (to use a formulation analogous to Adorno’s reflections on `radical modern music’). — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 418

Categorization

• XREF: Links to Adorno’s Philosophy of Modern Music and his account of the avant-garde composer inventing his own language. — connects to: Adorno’s Minima Moralia measures economic rationality against suppressed subjective potential. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 929
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno’s Minima Moralia measures economic rationality against suppressed subjective potential. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 929