Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.
Theodor AdornoThe individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.
Theodor AdornoThe inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.
Theodor AdornoIn the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
Theodor AdornoFreud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.
Theodor Adorno