The "Alienation" Thought in Adorno's Aesthetics

Adorno's Alienation thought,a main theme governing his aesthetics,is the result of his inheritance of the predecessors' social criticism theories and experiences,reflecting the living conditions of in real life.With the thought of enlightenment,Adorno traces human alienation back to the original way of thinking in the perspective of the subject-object dichotomy,as well as to the human civilization resulting from it.To Adorno,alienation is regarded as an eternal phenomenon accompanying human history,which is of unilaterally profundity as compared with Marx's alienation theory of the private ownership system in its specific period.Adorno,who defends the modern art by using his radical negative dialectics as a weapon,has realized both his criticism of reality and utopian salvation.