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Aesthetic Theory was edited by Gretel Adorno (the philosopher's widow) and Rolf Tiedemann from Adorno's working drafts. [4] It was assembled from unfinished manuscripts Adorno had composed between May 4, 1961, and July 16, 1969, mainly between October 25, 1966, and January 24, 1968.
Adorno's posthumously published Aesthetic Theory (1970), which he planned to dedicate to Samuel Beckett, is the culmination of a lifelong commitment to modern art, which attempts to revoke the "fatal separation" of feeling and understanding long demanded by the history of philosophy, and explode the privilege aesthetics accords to content over ...
The following is a list of the major work by Theodor W. Adorno, a 20th-century German philosopher, sociologist and critical theorist associated closely with the Frankfurt School. This list also includes information regarding English translation.
Adorno's work has had a large impact on cultural criticism, particularly through Adorno's analysis of popular culture and the culture industry. [10] Adorno's account of dialectics has influenced Joel Kovel, [11] the sociologist and philosopher John Holloway, the anarcho-primitivist philosopher John Zerzan, [12] the sociologist Boike Rehbein, [13] and the Austrian musicologist Sebastian Wedler.
This is a list of important and seminal works in the field of critical theory. Otto Maria Carpeaux. História da Literatura Ocidental, 8 vol. (Portuguese, 1959–66) [1] M. H. Abrams. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition; Angela Davis. Women, Race, and Class; Are Prisons Obsolete? Theodor Adorno. Aesthetic Theory ...
Hegel's Aesthetics is regarded by many as one of the greatest aesthetic theories to have been produced since Aristotle. [7] Hegel's thesis about the historical dissolution of art has been the subject of much scholarly debate and influenced such thinkers like Theodor W. Adorno, Martin Heidegger, György Lukács, Jacques Derrida and Arthur Danto.
The text of Aesthetic Theory, as it was in August 1969, which the editors present here as faithfully as possible, is the text of a work in progress; this is not the form in which Adorno would have published this book. Several days before his death he wrote in a letter than the final version ‘still needed a desperate effort’ but that ...
Adorno had been a member of the "Frankfurt School", a group of philosophers and Marxist theorists who fled Germany when Hitler shut down their Institute for Social Research. Adorno et al. were thus motivated by a desire [citation needed] to identify and measure factors that were believed to contribute to antisemitic and fascist traits.