the philological interpretation of the author ought to be preserved and surpassed in the Hegelian manner by dialectical materialists

the interpretation of Baudelaire should not be based on any chthonian elements

Brecht, bewildered and unnerved, reacted to this revolt of the masses with a mixture of truculent bluff and sentimental pathos in his private diaries.

Summary condemnation of the actual insurgency of the working-class was combined with ouvrierist exultation of its in-dwelling virtues

Adorno's recourse to tendentious terms such as 'the people's community'

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

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

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

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

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