The Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory

Theodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, sthetische Theorie, was published posthumously a...
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The Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory by Huhn, Tom

The Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory

$132.13

The Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory

$132.13
Author: Tom Huhn
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Theodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, sthetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philosophers have been as well versed in contemporary art, especially music, as Adorno, and even fewer have written so much that is of interest to the social sciences. Yet only recently have his aesthetic writings begun to receive sustained attention in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays is an important contribution to the growing discussion of Adorno's aesthetics in Anglo-American scholarship.

The essays in the volume, by many of the major Adorno scholars in the United States and Germany, are organized around the twin themes of semblance and subjectivity. Whereas the concept of semblance, or illusion, points to Adorno's links with Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, the concept of subjectivity recalls his lifelong struggle with a philosophy of consciousness stemming from Kant, Hegel, and Luk cs. Adorno's elaboration of the two concepts takes many dialecical twists. Art, despite the taint of illusion that it has carried since Plato's Republic, turns out in Adorno's account of modernism to have a sophisticated capacity to critique illusion, including its own. Adorno's aesthetics emphasizes the connection between aesthetic theory and many other aspects of social theory. The paradoxical genius of Aesthetic Theory is that it turns traditional concepts into a theoretical cutting edge.

Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought



Author: Tom Huhn
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 01/22/1999
Pages: 370
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 8.87h x 5.94w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780262581769
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Zuidervaart, Lambert: - Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He is the author of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press), Artistic Truth, Social Philosophy after Adorno, Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, and other books.

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