Adorno isn\u2019t Hegelian but he understands the concept of dialectics and he understands the concept of the dynamics, the instructiveness of dialectics and the energy of it. And so that\u2019s how he comes to articulate his own views of autonomy. Autonomy isn\u2019t like the avant-garde that is outside. It is the avant-garde that is inside. He called for a \u201cdialectical aesthetics\u201d where each element was mutually dependent and mutually reinforced the other. Art \u201clives\u201d in these tensions between the cognitive understanding and the materiality of art, between objective and subjective. But understanding is not reducible to a simplistic formula. Art must stand dialectically in relation to the immanent reality. He wrote, \u201cNot experience alone, but only thought that is saturated with experience is equal to the phenomenon.\u201d Meaning is a process of becoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"