William S. Allen

Adorno, Aesthetics, Dissonance (eBook, ePUB)

On Dialectics in Modernity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Adorno's aesthetics are one of the most important philosophical analyses of the 20th century, but their development remains unclear. Adorno, Aesthetics, Dissonance is the first book to provide a detailed study of how Adorno's thinking of aesthetics developed and to show the different dimensions that came together to make it uniquely powerful. Principal among these dimensions are his intense interest in
music and his historical and materialist approach. In addition, by studying how Adorno's aesthetics arose through interactions with different thinkers, particularly Kracauer, Horkheimer, and Schoenberg, it becomes clear that his thought changes in its relation to dialectics. As a result, Adorno's thinking comes to broaden the understanding of aesthetics to include the sphere of sensuality, and in doing so
transforms both aesthetics and dialectics through a notion of dissonance, which in turn has substantial implications for the relation of his thinking to praxis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501393877
• Artikelnr.: 65442755

Autorenporträt

William S. Allen (PhD, University of Warwick) is an independent researcher at the University of Southampton, UK, and the author of the following books: Ellipsis: Of Poetry and the Experience of Language after Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Blanchot(2007); Aesthetics of Negativity: Blanchot, Adorno, and Autonomy (2016); Without End: Sade's Critique of Reason(Bloomsbury, 2018); Blanchot and the Outside of Literature (Bloomsbury, 2019); Noir and Blanchot: Deteriorations of the Event (Bloomsbury, 2020); and Adorno, Aesthetics, Dissonance: On Dialectics in Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Dialectic of Aesthetics Part
One: The Development of Dialectics 1. Kracauer and the Dialectic of
Natural-History 2. Dialectics of the Avant-Garde in Music Part Two:
Refractions of Aesthetics 3. Horkheimer, Sade, and Erotic Reason 4.
Klossowski, Perversity, Criminality 5. Beside Herself with Desire: Musil 6.
Modernity and Utopia Notes Index