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Art and Aesthetics after Adorno

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ISBN-10: 0823253090

ISBN-13: 9780823253098

Edition: 2012

Authors: J. M. Bernstein, Claudia Brodsky, Anthony J. Cascardi, Thierry de Duve, Ales Erjavec

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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…    
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Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 4/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 302
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Anthony J. Cascardi is the director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities and a professor of Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley.