Music represents Adorno’s utopia of reconciled mind and nature

Evidence

Music here stood for the end of domination over nature, for a reconciliation between mind and nature which would prepare the way for a unification of internal and external nature. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1263

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concise statement of music’s utopian function in Adorno’s aesthetics of the period.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno defined the new music as structured longing for vanished meaning — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 285; Adorno links music’s origin to the gesture of weeping and release — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1262; Adorno saw twelve-tone technique as domination over nature that rebounds against its creators — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1269 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno saw twelve-tone technique as domination over nature that rebounds against its creators #qualifies (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1269