My friend Theodor W. Adorno - thoughts discourse reception aesthetic: powerlessness and aggressiveness, conformism and anti-social

Open Sesame! I want to go out. "The Hegelian motif of art as a consciousness of need has been confirmed beyond everything that can be foreseen from it." (Adorno 1973: 35) Theodor W. Adorno's conception of art occupies the central position in his entire work. In addition to philosophy and sociology, it is above all literature and music that Adorno's thought deals extensively with. In it he sees the only possible trailblazer for a more just society. In the modern age, only art is still able t...