Postwar literary avant-garde aimed at necessity freed from the individual.

Evidence

Just as the serial composers had absolutized the serial principle, so Beckett and Helms had absolutized their predecessors’ principle and were attempting to achieve a degree of necessity that was freed from the individual and that could encompass every aspect of the work. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2239

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains what ‘absolutizing a formal principle’ means in Adorno’s aesthetic vocabulary.
• XREF: connects to: Historical crisis enables the existential self to be freed from individualism; Avant-garde theater matched minimalist art’s material reduction — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 1135

Broader Connections

• Historical crisis enables the existential self to be freed from individualism #complicates (0.75)
• Avant-garde theater matched minimalist art’s material reduction #expands (0.72) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1135