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the demand for pragmatic fidelity to life can only refer to a writer's basic experience of reality and the membra disjecta of the subject-matter from which he fashions his work

the early writings, which were disparaged by his Party and which he had himself abjured

Brecht's disorientation before the revolt of the proletariat that belied (realized) his politics

Adorno's essays were not so much a Marxist defence of modernism as the expression of a distinctively modernist Marxism: his positions were, mutatis mutandis, those of modernist ideology itself

Adorno was right to point to the epistemological aporia of realist aesthetic theory