The radical quality of Adorno's aesthetic theory is that it redefines the enterprise of aesthetics by insisting on its link not to beauty as such but to the 'beauty' of human emancipation.
Tradition must be confronted 'with the most advanced stage of human consciousness', and in this way self-replicating tradition may be transformed, the process of self-replication interrupted–if only for a moment.
Critical Theory's continued relevance lies precisely here, where its aesthetics more than its politics confronts the beast from its belly.
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