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The Fleeting Promise of Art : Adorno's Aesthetic Theory Revisited /

A discussion of Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory is bound to look significantly different today than it would have looked when the book was first published in 1970, or when it first appeared in English translation in the 1980s. In The Fleeting Promise of Art, Peter Uwe Hohendahl reexamines Aes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hohendahl, Peter Uwe (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2013]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I
  • 1. Human Freedom and the Autonomy of Art: The Legacy of Kant
  • 2. The Ephemeral and the Absolute: The Truth Content of Art
  • 3. Aesthetic Violence: The Concepts of the Ugly and Primitive
  • Part II
  • 4. Reality, Realism, and Representation
  • 5. A Precarious Balance: Rereading German Classicism
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index