The sovereignty of art : aesthetic negativity in Adorno and Derrida /

In this book, Christoph Menke attempts to explain art's sovereign power over reason without falling into an error common to Adorno's negative dialectics and Derrida's deconstruction. The error, which appeared even earlier in romanticism, is to conceive of the sovereignty of art as a r...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Menke, Christoph, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998.
Series:Studies in contemporary German social thought.
Subjects:
Adorno, Theodor W., > 1903-1969 > Aesthetics.
Derrida, Jacques > Aesthetics.
Adorno, Theodor W., > 1903-1969 > Esthétique.
Derrida, Jacques > Esthétique.
Adorno, Theodor W., > 1903-1969
Derrida, Jacques.
1900-1999
Negativity (Philosophy) > History > 20th century.
Aesthetics, Modern > 20th century.
Deconstruction.
Négativité (Philosophie) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Esthétique > 20e siècle.
Déconstruction.
Deconstructivist.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
Aesthetics.
Aesthetics, Modern.
Negativity (Philosophy)
Esthetica.
Negatieve dialectiek.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Autonomy and Sovereignty
  • I. On the Negative Logic of Aesthetic Experience. 1. The Concept of Aesthetic Negativity. 2. Aesthetic Deferral. 3. The Aesthetics of Negativity and Hermeneutics. 4. On the Concept of Beauty
  • II. An Aesthetic Critique of Reason. 5. Aesthetic Sovereignty. 6. Problems in Grounding the Critique of Reason. 7. The Aesthetic Experience of Crisis. 8. Romantic and Modern Aesthetics: The Place of Art in the "Philosophical Discourse of Modernity."

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