Adorno’s analysis suggested that the historical process had expelled freedom while the hegemony of instrumental reason threatened subjectivity. Thus the goal of critical thinking was for him to project freedom in a new and redemptive «form». Adorno’s problem was that he never successfully achieved this goal. (...)
(...) In Negative Dialectics (1973), Adorno argued for a higher utility of theory, warning that «the call for unity of theory and practice has irresistibly degraded theory to a servant’s role» (p. 143). Reading Negative Dialectics in the light of this argument gives understanding to some of Adorno’s non-participatory approach.
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