Ideology and unregimented experience

The objective of critical theory is to analyze the conditions for changing society for the better. In the past, critical activity was often reduced to the call for "the liberation of labor." According to Adorno, liberation should include the liberation from the need to work in order to establish conditions in society that would allow everyone to develop their own experience without force and regulations. If the ideology achieves a subjective character, it is confronted by the demand for unregulated experiences and to strive for it means to strive for the best.

The edition includes Theodor W. Adorno’s text Theses on Need.