Szondi’s theory of modern drama tied technical form to social problems.

Evidence

It was a student of Emil Staiger’s Peter Szondi, influenced by Hegel’s Aesthetics, Lukács’s essay on `The Sociology of Modern Drama’ and Adorno’s Philosophy of Modern Music, who demonstrated in his Theory of Modern Drama (1956) howeven without a theological and messianic point of viewan analysis of the dialectic of form and content in individual works was able to show that the treatment of technical problems within works represented at the same time a reaction to social problems. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2237

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Adorno’s Philosophy of Modern Music and the Frankfurt School’s immanent-critique method, plus Hegel’s Aesthetics and Lukács’s sociology of drama. — connects to: Szondi showed dramatic formal-dialectical problems mirror social problems; Formal technical problems in drama mirror social problems of isolation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2237; Modernity is trouble and a problem, not simply progress — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 185 (+1 more)
• DEFINE: Clarifies what ‘dialectic of form and content’ means as a method: technical problems in a work mirror social problems.

Broader Connections

• Modernity is trouble and a problem, not simply progress #expands (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 185