Semblance of Subjectivity Essays in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory

Name: Semblance of Subjectivity Essays in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory
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ISBN: 9780262581769

ISBN-10: 0262581760

ISBN-13: 9780262581769

Edition: 1997

Authors: Tom Huhn, Lambert Zuidervaart, Thomas Mccarthy

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Theodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Auml;sthetische Theorie, was published a year later. Only recently, however, have his aesthetic writings begun to receive sustained attention in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays is an important contribution to the discussion of Adorno's aesthetics in Anglo-American scholarship. The essays 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 Lukaacute;cs. Adorno's elaboration…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/22/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 370
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction


Cultural Critique


Semblance and Subjectivity


Conceptual Constellations


Notes



Mimesis and Mimetology: Adorno and Lacoue-Labarthe



Aesthetic Theory's Mimesis of Walter Benjamin



Benjamin, Adorno, Surrealism



Concept, Image, Name: On Adorno's Utopia of Knowledge



Concerning the Central Idea of Adorno's Philosophy



Why Rescue Semblance? Metaphysical Experience and the Possibility of Ethics



Adorno's Notion of Natural Beauty: A Reconsideration



Kant, Adorno, and the Social Opacity of the Aesthetic



Art History and Autonomy



Construction of a Gendered Subject: A Feminist Reading of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory



The Philosophy of Dissonance: Adorno and Schoenberg


Select Bibliography



Theodor W. Adorno



Adorno's Books in German



Adorno's Books in English



Adorno's Articles in English



Writings on Adorno and Critical Theory



Anthologies and Special Issues ofJournals



Articles and Books on Adorno and Critical Theory


Contributors


Index