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Author: Theodor W. Adorno Adorno Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 1452965676 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 710
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Perhaps the most important aesthetics of the twentieth century appears here newly translated, in English that is for the first time faithful to the intricately demanding language of the original German. The culmination of a lifetime of aesthetic investigation, Aesthetic Theory is Adorno’s major work, a defense of modernism that is paradoxical in its defense of illusion. In it, Adorno takes up the problem of art in a day when “it goes without saying that nothing concerning art goes without saying.” In the course of his discussion, Adorno revisits such concepts as the sublime, the ugly, and the beautiful, demonstrating that concepts such as these are reservoirs of human experience. These experiences ultimately underlie aesthetics, for in Adorno’s formulation “art is the sedimented history of human misery.” Robert Hullot-Kentor’s translation painstakingly, yet fluently, reproduces the nuances and particularities of the original. Long awaited and significant, Aesthetic Theory is the clarifying lens through which the whole of Adorno’s work is best viewed, providing a framework within which his other major writings cohere.
Author: Theodor W. Adorno Adorno Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 1452965676 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 710
Book Description
Perhaps the most important aesthetics of the twentieth century appears here newly translated, in English that is for the first time faithful to the intricately demanding language of the original German. The culmination of a lifetime of aesthetic investigation, Aesthetic Theory is Adorno’s major work, a defense of modernism that is paradoxical in its defense of illusion. In it, Adorno takes up the problem of art in a day when “it goes without saying that nothing concerning art goes without saying.” In the course of his discussion, Adorno revisits such concepts as the sublime, the ugly, and the beautiful, demonstrating that concepts such as these are reservoirs of human experience. These experiences ultimately underlie aesthetics, for in Adorno’s formulation “art is the sedimented history of human misery.” Robert Hullot-Kentor’s translation painstakingly, yet fluently, reproduces the nuances and particularities of the original. Long awaited and significant, Aesthetic Theory is the clarifying lens through which the whole of Adorno’s work is best viewed, providing a framework within which his other major writings cohere.
Author: Tom Huhn Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 9780262581769 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 372
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The essays are organized around the twin themes of semblance and subjectivity. Whereas the concept of semblance, or illusion, points to Adorno's links with Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, the concept of subjectivity recalls his lifelong struggle with a philosophy ofconsciousness stemming from Kant, Hegel, and Lukacs.
Author: Anne Eusterschulte Publisher: de Gruyter ISBN: 9783110670653 Category : Philosophy Languages : de Pages : 0
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Mit seinem posthum publizierten Spätwerk, der Ästhetischen Theorie (1970), hat Theodor W. Adorno die letzte Ästhetik der Moderne vorgelegt, die zugleich mehr ist als eine philosophische Ästhetik: Reflexion über die gesellschaftliche Möglichkeit respektive Unmöglichkeit von Kunst nach Auschwitz. Anlässlich des 50. Jahrestags der Erstveröffentlichung widmet sich dieser Band erstmals einer kommentierenden Auslegung der unabgeschlossenen Ästhetischen Theorie. Die Beiträge entfalten die begrifflichen und die materialen Bezüge der fragmentarischen Textblöcke. Adornos systematische Überlegungen werden in den sozialen, politischen und kulturellen Konstellationen um das Jahr 1968 situiert und nach ihrer Wirkungsgeschichte befragt. Anstatt schlicht ihre Historisierung abzuschließen, arbeiten die Kommentare die Triftigkeit vieler der ästhetisch-theoretischen Reflexionen für die Gegenwart heraus. Damit wendet sich der Band auch an diejenigen, die der Musik, der bildenden Kunst, der Literatur und der darstellenden Kunst mit philosophischem Interesse begegnen.
Author: Theodor W. Adorno Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9780710092045 Category : Aesthetics Languages : en Pages : 526
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Perhaps the most important aesthetics of the twentieth century appears here newly translated, in English that is for the first time faithful to the intricately demanding language of the original German. The culmination of a lifetime of aesthetic investigation, Aesthetic Theory is Theodor W. Adorno's magnum opus, the clarifying lens through which the whole of his work is best viewed, providing a framework within which his other major writings cohere.
Author: Lambert Zuidervaart Publisher: Mit Press ISBN: 9780262740166 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 388
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This is the first book to offer readers a guide through the vast labyrinth of Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory, putting the work into historical context and outlining the main ideas and the relevant debates it participated in or spawned.Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College.
Author: Theodor W. Adorno Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0745694527 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 249
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At the beginning of his career in the 1920s, Adorno sketched a plan to write a major work on the theory of musical reproduction, a task he returned to time and again throughout his career but never completed. The choice of the word reproduction as opposed to interpretation indicates a primary supposition: that there is a clearly defined musical text whose precision exceeds what is visible on the page, and that the performer has the responsibility to reproduce it as accurately as possible, beyond simply playing what is written. This task, according to Adorno, requires a detailed understanding of all musical parameters in their historical context, and his reflections upon this task lead to a fundamental study of the nature of notation and musical sense. In the various notes and texts brought together in Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction, one finds Adorno constantly circling around an irresolvable paradox: interpretation can only fail the work, yet only through it can musics true essence be captured. While he at times seems more definite in his pronouncement of a musical scores absolute value just as a book is read silently, not aloud his discourse repeatedly displays his inability to cling to that belief. It is this quality of uncertainty in his reflections that truly indicates the scope of the discourse and its continuing relevance to musical thought and practice today.
Author: Stefano Petrucciani Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 303071991X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 175
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This book is a complete presentation of the most important themes of Theodor W. Adorno’s critical theory, and of its relevance for the understanding of the modern society. After an Introduction, which traces Adorno’s biographical and intellectual profile, the book is structured in three parts. The first is devoted to theoretical philosophy, and in particular to the concepts of philosophy, negative dialectics and metaphysics, and his aim is to clarify the Adornian understanding of such difficult concepts. The second is devoted to the main themes of Adorno’s social theory: the concept of domination, the relationship with Marxism, the theory of the decay of the individual, the critique of mass manipulation. The third part is devoted to aesthetics and culture criticism, and entails a conclusion in which the author outlines a confrontation between the Adornian and the Habermasian critique of modernity.
Author: Theodor W. Adorno Publisher: ISBN: 9780816617999 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 383
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The culmination of a lifetime of aesthetic investigation, Aesthetic Theory is Adorno's major work, a defense of modernism that is paradoxical in its defense of illusion. In it, Adorno takes up the problem of art in a day when "it goes without saying that nothing concerning art goes without saying". In the course of his discussion, Adorno revisits such concepts as the sublime, the ugly, and the beautiful, demonstrating that concepts such as these are reservoirs of human experience. These experiences ultimately underlie aesthetics, for in Adorno's formulation "art is the sedimented history of human misery".
Author: Peter Uwe Hohendahl Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 150170544X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 330
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Reappraisals is a provocative account of the development of modern critical theory in Germany and the United States. Focusing on the period since World War II, Peter Uwe Hohendahl explores key debates on the function of critical theory, illuminating the diverse positions and alliances among the participants. Bringing together six essays, as well as new introductory and concluding chapters, Hohendahl interprets and subjects to critical scrutiny many of the central ideas of the Frankfurt School. He first maps the trajectory of neomarxist criticism in Germany to the 1980s. Individual chapters then focus on the work of Georg Lukacs, Theodor W. Adorno, and Jürgen Habermas, and on such issues as the politicization of German criticism after 1965 under the influence of the Frankfurt School.
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