Aesthetic Theory

Author : Theodor W. Adorno Adorno
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 0710092040

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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 : Lambert Zuidervaart
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262740168

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Adorno's Aesthetic Theory by Lambert Zuidervaart Pdf

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 : David Boersema
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429977954

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Philosophy of Art by David Boersema Pdf

This book addresses issues in the philosophy of art through the lenses of the three broad areas of philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, and axiology. It surveys many important and pervasive topics connected to a philosophical understanding of art.

Author : Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Dieter Mersch,Sylvia Sasse,Sandro Zanetti
Publisher : Diaphanes
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 3035801460

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Aesthetic Theory by Dieter Mersch,Sylvia Sasse,Sandro Zanetti Pdf

Theodor Adorno's famous aesthetic theory was not merely a theory of the aesthetic; it also made a wider claim about the aesthetic implications of all theory. At the same time we have to deal with aesthetic objects and events in which an aesthetic theory is inherent, which show themselves as art. From both sides--theory and aesthetics--a link can be made to the etymological meaning of theōria, which understands the theoretical as a seeing or perspective. Featuring lucid essays by major thinkers, the book examines this link, focusing equally on the aesthetic implications of theory and the theoretical implications of aesthetic events.

Author : Simon Grote
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107110922

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The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory by Simon Grote Pdf

This new study of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory situates it in theological contexts that are crucial to explaining why it arose.

Author : J. Hellings
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137315717

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Adorno and Art by J. Hellings Pdf

A comprehensive, critical and accessible account of Theodor W. Adorno's materialist-dialectical aesthetic theory of art from a contemporary perspective, this volume shows how Adorno's critical theory is awash with images crystallising thoughts to such a degree that it has every reason to be described as aesthetic.

Author : Dabney Townsend
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134568024

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Hume's Aesthetic Theory by Dabney Townsend Pdf

Hume's Aesthetic Theory examines the neglected area of the development of aesthetics in empiricist thinking, exploring the link between the empiricist background of aesthetics in the eighteenth century and the work of David Hume. This is a major contribution to our understanding of Hume's general philosophy and provides fresh insights into the history of aesthetics.

Author : Graeme Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0719077176

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Aesthetic Theory and the Video Game by Graeme Kirkpatrick Pdf

This book draws on aesthetic theory, including ideas from the history of painting, music and dance, to offer a fresh perspective on the video game as a popular cultural form. It argues that games like Grand Theft Auto and Elektroplankton are aesthetic objects that appeal to players because they offer an experience of form, as this idea was understood by philosophers like Immanuel Kant and Theodor Adorno. Video games are awkward objects that have defied efforts to categorize them within established academic disciplines and intellectual frameworks. Yet no one can deny their importance in re-configuring contemporary culture and their influence can be seen in contemporary film, television, literature, music, dance and advertising. This book argues that their very awkwardness should form the starting point for a proper analysis of what games are and the reasons for their popularity. This book will appeal to anyone with a serious interest in the increasingly playful character of contemporary capitalist culture.

Author : Owen Hulatt
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Guy Sircello
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400872381

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New Theory of Beauty by Guy Sircello Pdf

Ever since the eighteenth century, when Kant opened the floodgates of subjectivism in aesthetics, common men and philosophers alike have despaired of finding a basis for judgments about beauty. This book provides a comprehensive theory that encompasses beauty in art and nature, as well as intellectual, utilitarian, and moral beauty. The author argues that the beauty of objects can be reduced to the beauty of properties of those objects, which in turn can be understood in terms of "properties of qualitative degree." The theory, developed first with respect to color, is then extended to include all sensory and non-sensory qualities. The author shows how the theory explicates and resolves disagreements about what is beautiful and discusses its relevance to the traditional notions of harmony and sublimity. His is an objectivist theory of beauty, and it enables him, in conclusion, to demonstrate why we enjoy perceiving beauty. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : J G Warry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136231230

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Greek Aesthetic Theory (RLE: Plato) by J G Warry Pdf

This book provides a clear and informed account of aesthetic and callistic concepts as they occur in the works of Plato and Aristotle. The author illustrates their ideas on art and beauty by close reference to their texts and finds a profound similarity which unites them, revealing many of their differences to be complementary aspects of an essentially similar viewpoint. He also shows how Greek notions of art and beauty are not merely primitive steps in the advance to modern ideas but have a direct relevance to modern critical controversies.

Author : Paolo Euron
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004409231

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Aesthetics, Theory and Interpretation of the Literary Work by Paolo Euron Pdf

This book introduces the reader to the literary work and to an understanding of its cultural background and its specific features, presenting basic topics and ideas in their historical context and development in Western culture.

Author : Dolf Sörensen
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Aesthetics, Modern
ISBN : 9062032001

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James Joyce's Aesthetic Theory by Dolf Sörensen Pdf