Narration neutralizes subject and object, anticipating utopian reconciliation in its structure

Evidence

Thus, with its humiliation of middle-class philosophy, History and Class Consciousness lays the groundwork for that differentiation of the aesthetic experience which Lukács will later exhaustively work out in the Aesthetik, where indeed narration is valorized in that it presupposes neither the transcendence of the object (as in science) nor that of the subject (as in ethics), but rather a neutralization of the two, their mutual reconciliation, which thus anticipates the life experience of a Utopian world in its very structure. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 384

Categorization

• XREF: Narration as the neutralization of subject/object transcendence connects to Adorno’s aesthetics of reconciliation and to Benjamin’s notion of the artwork. Core lineage material. — connects to: Formal technical problems in drama mirror social problems of isolation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2237; The end of the subject-object gap reveals a more originary mode of becoming — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1081; Utopian fulfillment splits into temporal tendency and perceptual latency of present things. (+5 more)
• ADDENDUM: The claim that narration’s structure anticipates a reconciled world resonates with the grafting-metaphor essay’s treatment of art anticipating states the world has not yet reached.

Broader Connections

• The end of the subject-object gap reveals a more originary mode of becoming #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1081
• Utopian fulfillment splits into temporal tendency and perceptual latency of present things. #expands (0.80)
• Third-person narration defies immediate experience to make structural categories thinkable. #qualifies (0.80) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 353