Empire of meaning Book

I can definitely understand why the students during the uprisings found little use for Adorno. To the extent that he had anything to say, it was almost always knee-deep in a form of idealism that put more faith in thought and clarifying concepts within the confines of the university. Most critics of capital understand action and struggle as a means by which our concepts and theories may be refined. Adorno views most action, and involvement within an organization, as a subordination of the very important idea of the "individual". The age in which he was writing was one where the expansion of capital seemed unlikely to cease and his offering in response is the valorization of the "individual", with the "collective" being written off as a sort of rabble that merely hollers at the impenetrable wall of capital with no hope of actually bring it down.