Adorno Aesthetics Dissonance

Author : William S. Allen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 273 pages
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Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501393884

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Adorno, Aesthetics, Dissonance by William S. Allen Pdf

Adorno's aesthetics are one of the most important philosophical analyses of the 20th century, but their development remains unclear. Adorno, Aesthetics, Dissonance is the first book to provide a detailed study of how Adorno's thinking of aesthetics developed and to show the different dimensions that came together to make it uniquely powerful. Principal among these dimensions are his intense interest in music and his historical and materialist approach. In addition, by studying how Adorno's aesthetics arose through interactions with different thinkers, particularly Kracauer, Horkheimer, and Schoenberg, it becomes clear that his thought changes in its relation to dialectics. As a result, Adorno's thinking comes to broaden the understanding of aesthetics to include the sphere of sensuality, and in doing so transforms both aesthetics and dialectics through a notion of dissonance, which in turn has substantial implications for the relation of his thinking to praxis.

Author : William S. Allen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501393877

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Adorno, Aesthetics, Dissonance by William S. Allen Pdf

Adorno's aesthetics are one of the most important philosophical analyses of the 20th century, but their development remains unclear. Adorno, Aesthetics, Dissonance is the first book to provide a detailed study of how Adorno's thinking of aesthetics developed and to show the different dimensions that came together to make it uniquely powerful. Principal among these dimensions are his intense interest in music and his historical and materialist approach. In addition, by studying how Adorno's aesthetics arose through interactions with different thinkers, particularly Kracauer, Horkheimer, and Schoenberg, it becomes clear that his thought changes in its relation to dialectics. As a result, Adorno's thinking comes to broaden the understanding of aesthetics to include the sphere of sensuality, and in doing so transforms both aesthetics and dialectics through a notion of dissonance, which in turn has substantial implications for the relation of his thinking to praxis.

Author : Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745694870

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Aesthetics by Theodor W. Adorno Pdf

This volume of lectures on aesthetics, given by Adorno in the winter semester of 1958–9, formed the foundation for his later Aesthetic Theory, widely regarded as one of his greatest works. The lectures cover a wide range of topics, from an intense analysis of the work of Georg Lukács to a sustained reflection on the theory of aesthetic experience, from an examination of works by Plato, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Benjamin, to a discussion of the latest experiments of John Cage, attesting to the virtuosity and breadth of Adorno's engagement. All the while, Adorno remains deeply connected to his surrounding context, offering us a window onto the artistic, intellectual and political confrontations that shaped life in post-war Germany. This volume will appeal to a broad range of students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences, as well as anyone interested in the development of critical theory.

Author : Shea Coulson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443806763

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Adorno’s Aesthetics of Critique by Shea Coulson Pdf

Adorno's Aesthetics of Critique examines Theodor Adorno's mode of critique from the perspective of his aesthetics. This has two purposes. The first purpose is to determine the effect of the primary importance Adorno places on aesthetics in his philosophy as a whole and to determine how this primacy influences the way in which he reads the philosophical tradition. The second purpose is to understand the role of aesthetics in critical thinking generally and to reinvigorate Adorno's understanding of the subjective and objective dimensions of critique. The ultimate aim is to promote new interpretations of Adorno and to reassert his relevance for constructing effective modes of critical thinking. The book proceeds through four main chapters that focus on four different dimensions of Adorno's thought: knowledge, history, culture, and art. The first chapter uses Adorno's aesthetic theory to re-read his interpretation of Kant's subject-object dynamic. This grounds the second chapter, on history, which proceeds through an analysis of Adorno's reading of Hegel. The third chapter uses the philosophical grounding of the first two to explore how knowledge and history interact within society as fundamental dimensions of "culture". The scope and meaning of culture and its relevance for critique form the primary focus of this chapter. The fourth chapter turns to art to highlight the relationship between the critical and artistic dimensions of aesthetics in order to facilitate a dialogue between them. This serves the purpose of asserting and outlining the relevance of aesthetics for critical thought in the humanities and social sciences, which forms the crux of the book.

Author : Owen Hulatt
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231542203

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Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth by Owen Hulatt Pdf

In Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth, Owen Hulatt undertakes an original reading of Theodor W. Adorno's epistemology and its material underpinnings, deepening our understanding of his theories of truth, art, and the nonidentical. Hulatt's novel interpretation casts Adorno's theory of philosophical and aesthetic truth as substantially unified, supporting the thinker's claim that both philosophy and art are capable of being true. For Adorno, truth is produced when rhetorical "texture" combines with cognitive "performance," leading to the breakdown of concepts that mediate the experience of the consciousness. Both philosophy and art manifest these features, although philosophy enacts these conceptual issues directly, while art does so obliquely. Hulatt builds a robust argument for Adorno's claim that concepts ineluctably misconstrue their objects. He also puts the still influential thinker into conversation with Hegel, Husserl, Frazer, Sohn-Rethel, Benjamin, Strawson, Dahlhaus, Habermas, and Caillois, among many others.

Author : Theodor W. Adorno,Gretel Adorno,Rolf Tiedemann
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 0485300907

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Aesthetic Theory by Theodor W. Adorno,Gretel Adorno,Rolf Tiedemann Pdf

Theodor Adorno (1903-69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School, the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US in the 1930s, including such thinkers as Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer. His work has proved enormously influential in sociology, philosophy and cultural theory. Aesthetic Theory is Adorno's posthumous magnum opus and the culmination of a lifetime's investigation. Analysing the sublime, the ugly and the beautiful, Adorno shows how such concepts frame and distil human experience and that it is human experience that ultimately underlies aesthetics. In Adorno's formulation 'art is the sedimented history of human misery'. Edited by Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedeman Translated by Robert Hullot-Kentor.

Author : Theodor W. Adorno Adorno
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781452965673

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Aesthetic Theory by Theodor W. Adorno Adorno Pdf

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 : Willi Goetschel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350087262

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Heine and Critical Theory by Willi Goetschel Pdf

Heinrich Heine's role in the formation of Critical Theory has been systematically overlooked in the course of the successful appropriation of his thought by Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and the legacy they left, in particular for Adorno, Benjamin and the Frankfurt School. This book examines the critical connections that led Adorno to call for a “reappraisal” of Heine in a 1948 essay that, published posthumously, remains under-examined. Tracing Heine's Jewish difference and its liberating comedy of irreverence in the thought of the Frankfurt School, the book situates the project of Critical Theory in the tradition of a praxis of critique, which Heine elevates to the art of public controversy. Heine's bold linking of aesthetics and political concerns anticipates the critical paradigm assumed by Benjamin and Adorno. Reading Critical Theory with Heine recovers a forgotten voice that has theoretically critical significance for the formation of the Frankfurt School. With Heine, the project of Critical Theory can be understood as the sustained effort to advance the emancipation of the affects and the senses, at the heart of a theoretical vision that recognizes pleasure as the liberating force in the fight for freedom.

Author : Shierry Weber Nicholsen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262640406

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Exact Imagination, Late Work by Shierry Weber Nicholsen Pdf

In Exact Imagination, Late Work, Shierry Weber Nicholsen begins the process of appropriating Adorno through the centrality of the aesthetic dimension.

Author : Mario Farina
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030452810

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Adorno’s Aesthetics as a Literary Theory of Art by Mario Farina Pdf

This book re-examines Adorno’s aesthetics, developing a new literary approach that aims to unveil hidden elements of Adorno’s thought. Farina proposes to read Adorno’s aesthetics as a literary theory of art, showing its efficacy in its comprehension of the most advanced trends of contemporary literature. As a result, this book provides an image of Adorno’s aesthetics as a complete, satisfying and consistent philosophy of literature, a robust theory which is able to stand its ground in contemporary aesthetic debate. Challenging the prevalent prejudice that defines Adorno’s thought, and especially his aesthetics, as ‘modernist’, Farina argues that Adorno's philosophy of literature shows its value precisely in its application to and comprehension of postmodern literature, such as the works of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and David Foster Wallace. Precise and compelling, this book provides a new paradigm for understanding Adorno’s theory of artwork, serving as an essential reference for researches investigating the relation between classical critical theory and contemporary art.

Author : Andrew E. Benjamin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Culture
ISBN : 0415010667

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The Problems of Modernity by Andrew E. Benjamin Pdf

Author : Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher : Routledge Kegan & Paul
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0710209908

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Aesthetic Theory by Theodor W. Adorno Pdf

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 : Iain Macdonald
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 080475635X

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Adorno and Heidegger by Iain Macdonald Pdf

This collection of essays explores the conflictual history and future implications of two important traditions of twentieth-century European thought: the critical theory of Theodor W. Adorno and the ontology of Martin Heidegger.

Author : J. M. Bernstein,Claudia Brodsky,Anthony J. Cascardi,Ales Erjavec,Thierry de Duve,Robert Kaufman,Fred Rush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0823253090

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Art and Aesthetics After Adorno by J. M. Bernstein,Claudia Brodsky,Anthony J. Cascardi,Ales Erjavec,Thierry de Duve,Robert Kaufman,Fred Rush Pdf

Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (1970) offers one of the most powerful and comprehensive critiques of art and of the discipline of aesthetics ever written. The work offers a deeply critical engagement with the history and philosophy of aesthetics and with the traditions of European art through the middle of the 20th century. It is coupled with ambitious claims about what aesthetic theory ought to be. But the cultural horizon of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory was the world of high modernism, and much has happened since then both in theory and in practice. Adorno's powerful vision of aesthetics calls for reconsideration in this light. Must his work be defended, updated, resisted, or simply left behind? This volume gathers new essays by leading philosophers, critics, and theorists writing in the wake of Adorno in order to address these questions. They hold in common a deep respect for the power of Adorno's aesthetic critique and a concern for the future of aesthetic theory in response to recent developments in aesthetics and its contexts.

Author : Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0826414907

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Philosophy of Modern Music by Theodor W. Adorno Pdf

A landmark work from the founder of the Frankfurt School. A key work in the study of Adorno, of interest to students and general readers alike.