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Adorno’s ideas on avant-garde art are found scattered in fragments throughout his opus, with the ... more Adorno’s ideas on avant-garde art are found scattered in fragments throughout his opus, with the most rigorous study of it found in the unfinished ‘Aesthetic Theory’. Much like his other major ideas, they are not articulated as a clear and concise exposition in any single work. In this paper, I will attempt to formulate, and consequently scrutinize, his conception of art as critical of the social totality in a streamlined argumentative form. In §2, I will examine what, for Adorno, is to be resisted by art (namely enlightenment’s ‘instrumental reason’, manifested in late capitalism as commodification and the culture industry). In §3, I will examine why, and how avant-garde art exhibits resistance to the ‘reified consciousness’ – namely, its status as autonomous and mimetic. . In §4, I look specifically at Kafka’s work as exemplary of these attitudes. In §5, I explore worries concerning his understanding of avant-garde art. I conclude in §6.
Adorno’s ideas on avant-garde art are found scattered in fragments throughout his opus, with the ... more Adorno’s ideas on avant-garde art are found scattered in fragments throughout his opus, with the most rigorous study of it found in the unfinished ‘Aesthetic Theory’. Much like his other major ideas, they are not articulated as a clear and concise exposition in any single work. In this paper, I will attempt to formulate, and consequently scrutinize, his conception of art as critical of the social totality in a streamlined argumentative form. In §2, I will examine what, for Adorno, is to be resisted by art (namely enlightenment’s ‘instrumental reason’, manifested in late capitalism as commodification and the culture industry). In §3, I will examine why, and how avant-garde art exhibits resistance to the ‘reified consciousness’ – namely, its status as autonomous and mimetic. . In §4, I look specifically at Kafka’s work as exemplary of these attitudes. In §5, I explore worries concerning his understanding of avant-garde art. I conclude in §6.