Adorno's Modernism: Art, Experience, and Catastrophe

ISBN-13: 9781107551749 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str.

Espen Hammer

Opis

The book is a study of Adorno's aesthetics, its philosophical background, and its account of aesthetic modernism.

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction; 1. Art and the problem of modernity; 2. The beautiful and the sublime: an aesthetics of nature; 3. The dialectic of aesthetic autonomy; 4. Language, truth, and semblance; 5. A topography of nothingness: Adorno on Beckett; 6. Experience and metaphysics: the legacy of Kant; 7. An aesthetics of negativity; Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index.