Art and Aesthetics after Adorno

Published by Fordham University Press 2013

Art and Aesthetics after Adorno

Edited by: J. M. Bernstein , Claudia Brodsky , Anthony J. Cascardi , Thierry de Duve , Ales Erjavec , Robert Kaufman and Fred Rush

In the series Berkeley Forum in the Humanities

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823290932

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Theodor Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory (1970) offers one of the most powerful and comprehensive critiques of art and of the discipline of aesthetics ever written. The work offers a deeply critical engagement with the history and philosophy of aesthetics and with the traditions of European art through the middle of the 20th century. It is coupled with ambitious claims about what aesthetic theory ought to be. But the cultural horizon of Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory was the world of high modernism, and much has happened since then both in theory and in practice. Adorno’s powerful vision of aesthetics calls for reconsideration in this light. Must his work be defended, updated, resisted, or simply left behind? This volume gathers new essays by leading philosophers, critics, and theorists writing in the wake of Adorno in order to address these questions. They hold in common a deep respect for the power of Adorno’s aesthetic critique and a concern for the future of aesthetic theory in response to recent developments in aesthetics and its contexts.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Prolegomena to Any Future Aesthetics Anthony J. Cascardi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Adorno After Adorno Fred Rush Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Framing the Sensuous: Objecthood and “Objectivity” in Art After Adorno Claudia Brodsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Poetry After “Poetry After Auschwitz” Robert Kaufman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
Aesthetics and the Aesthetic Today: After Adorno Aleš Erjavec Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
“The Demand for Ugliness”: Picasso’s Bodies J. M. Bernstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
Resisting Adorno, Revamping Kant Thierry de Duve Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Endnotes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
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- Main content: 302
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- Other: 3 Illustrations, black and white

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