Before moving into the multinational future of monopoly capitalism, Adorno touches base with its neo-national past, via an in-depth critique of Heidegger and the ontological movements, as well as a diagnosis of the ontological need which drove the creation of the ontologies in the first place. This is important, because the ontological systems were the first mass-cultural spin-offs of the classical theoretical systems handed down by the 19th century. Though the ontologies weren't necessarily fascist in themselves, they were deeply authoritarian, and protested against the reification, massification and leveling of monopoly capitalism by an ugly conceptual xenophobia and denunciation of anything doesn't belong to one's own deeply repressive national community; this is why ontology preceded the Fascisms of the 1930s, and outlasted the military defeat of these movements. Adorno is particularly interested in identifying the ontological ideologies and
thematics which continued to linger on the societies of monopoly capitalism in the 1950s.
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