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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hohendahl, Peter Uwe (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Adorno, Theodor W., > 1903-1969
Adorno, Theodor W., > 1903-1969 > Aesthetics.
Aesthetics, German.
Aesthetics.
ART > Criticism & Theory.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Esthetique allemande > 20e siecle.
Aesthetics, German > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Human freedom and the autonomy of art : Adorno as a reader of Kant
  • The ephemeral and the absolute : provisional notes to Adorno's aesthetic theory
  • Aesthetic violence : the concept of the ugly in Adorno's aesthetic theory
  • Reality, realism, and representation
  • A precarious balance : Adorno and German classicism.

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