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| Named Person: | Theodor W Adorno; Jacques Derrida; Theodor W Adorno; Jacques Derrida; Theodor W Adorno; Jacques Derrida; Derrida; Jacques Derrida; Theodor W Adorno |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Christoph Menke |
| ISBN: | 0262133407 9780262133401 0262631954 9780262631952 |
| OCLC Number: | 42214313 |
| Language Note: | Translation of: Die Souveränität der Kunst. |
| Description: | xiii, 310 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Autonomy and Sovereignty -- I. On the Negative Logic of Aesthetic Experience. 1. The Concept of Aesthetic Negativity. 2. Aesthetic Deferral. 3. The Aesthetics of Negativity and Hermeneutics. 4. On the Concept of Beauty -- II. An Aesthetic Critique of Reason. 5. Aesthetic Sovereignty. 6. Problems in Grounding the Critique of Reason. 7. The Aesthetic Experience of Crisis. 8. Romantic and Modern Aesthetics: The Place of Art in the "Philosophical Discourse of Modernity" |
| Series Title: | Studies in contemporary German social thought. |
| Other Titles: | Souveränität der Kunst. |
| Responsibility: | Christoph Menke ; translated by Neil Solomon. |
Abstract:
In this book, Christoph Menke attempts to explain art's sovereign power over reason without falling into an error common to Adorno's negative dialectics and Derrida's deconstruction. The error, which appeared even earlier in romanticism, is to conceive of the sovereignty of art as a reflection of the superiority of its knowledge; but art entails no knowledge, and its negativity toward reason cannot be articulated as an insight into the nature of reason. Rather, art is the medium of an experience that confronts reason from the outside with an insurmountable, never-ending crisis. Art is sovereign not despite, but because of, its autonomy. Its power to subvert reason depends on its separateness from reason. Menke brings to his arguments a firm grounding in both philosophy and literary studies, as well as familiarity with German, French, and American sources.
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- Adorno, Theodor W., -- 1903-1969 -- Aesthetics.
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- Negativity (Philosophy) -- History -- 20th century.
- Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century.
- Deconstruction.
- Adorno, Theodor W., -- 1903-1969 -- Esthétique
- Derrida, Jacques -- Esthétique
- Négativité (Philosophie) -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
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- Déconstruction
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- Adorno, Theodor W. -- (Theodor Wiesengrund), -- 1903-1969 -- Aesthetics.
- Derrida, Jacques, -- 1930- -- Aesthetics.
- Derrida -- Jacques -- Ästhetische Wahrnehmung -- Adorno, Theodor W.
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- Adorno, Theodor W.
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