From: Michael Hoover <hoov-AT-freenet.tlh.fl.us>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: Lukacs + Adorno
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 97 13:02:31 18000


> The only legitimate aesthetic expression, yes; the only political or
> social expression, not at all. 
> As far as the whole one-dimensional thing goes: this was precisely the
> Frankfurt School's point, 
> They argued that the Left
> had to reinvent a utopian vision 
> the basic point, you will note, of the New Left which exploded
> into existence in 1968. 
> -- Dennis

What were Adorno's politics?...to the best of my knowledge the only
prominent Frankfurter who participated in and actively supported
radical politics was Marcuse...if memory serves, Martin Jay - in *The
Dialectical Imagination* - likened them to Karl Mannheim's "free-
floating intellectuals"...didn't Adorno distance himself from the
late '60s movement (perhaps not as far as Horkheimer did)?...

interestingly, it was Marcuse - in *One Dimensional Man* - who
maintained that "forces and tendencies exist which may break this 
containment and explode the society" (Beacon Press: p. xv)...and he
explored such possibilities both before ODM in *Eros & Civilization*
and afterwards in *Five Lectures* and *Counter-Revolution and Revolt*.
..Michael


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