Adorno's principal writings on Berg

Cold, cold, warm: Autonomy, intimacy and maturity in Adorno

“…Adorno will therefore say that 'the only real concrete form of maturity would consist in those few able people committing all their energy towards making education an education in contradiction and resistance'. 72 Critique is the preserve of the individual subject, but the individual subject must learn, with others, to be critical; otherwise, autonomy is marginalized and dominant patterns of sociability heteronomously take its place in society. This is the deeper sense in which autonomy requires human intimacy, not just in the sense of intimate critique, but in the sense of the social cultivation of autonomy.…”