Aesthetic Theory

Author: Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780710092045
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 526

The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory

Author: Simon Grote
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107110920
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
This new study of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory situates it in theological contexts that are crucial to explaining why it arose.

Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth

Author: Owen Hulatt
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231542208
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
In Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth, Owen Hulatt undertakes an original reading of Theodor W. Adorno's epistemology and its material underpinnings, deepening our understanding of his theories of truth, art, and the nonidentical. Hulatt's novel interpretation casts Adorno's theory of philosophical and aesthetic truth as substantially unified, supporting the thinker's claim that both philosophy and art are capable of being true. For Adorno, truth is produced when rhetorical "texture" combines with cognitive "performance," leading to the breakdown of concepts that mediate the experience of the consciousness. Both philosophy and art manifest these features, although philosophy enacts these conceptual issues directly, while art does so obliquely. Hulatt builds a robust argument for Adorno's claim that concepts ineluctably misconstrue their objects. He also puts the still influential thinker into conversation with Hegel, Husserl, Frazer, Sohn-Rethel, Benjamin, Strawson, Dahlhaus, Habermas, and Caillois, among many others.

Aesthetic Theory

Author: Dieter Mersch
Publisher: Diaphanes
ISBN: 9783035801460
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Theodor Adorno's famous aesthetic theory was not merely a theory of the aesthetic; it also made a wider claim about the aesthetic implications of all theory. At the same time we have to deal with aesthetic objects and events in which an aesthetic theory is inherent, which show themselves as art. From both sides--theory and aesthetics--a link can be made to the etymological meaning of theōria, which understands the theoretical as a seeing or perspective. Featuring lucid essays by major thinkers, the book examines this link, focusing equally on the aesthetic implications of theory and the theoretical implications of aesthetic events.

Philosophy of Art

Author: David Boersema
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429977956
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 313

Book Description
This book addresses issues in the philosophy of art through the lenses of the three broad areas of philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, and axiology. It surveys many important and pervasive topics connected to a philosophical understanding of art.

Adorno's Aesthetic Theory

Author: Lambert Zuidervaart
Publisher: Mit Press
ISBN: 9780262740166
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
This is the first book to offer readers a guide through the vast labyrinth of Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory, putting the work into historical context and outlining the main ideas and the relevant debates it participated in or spawned.Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College.

Aesthetic Theory

Author: Theodor W. Adorno Adorno
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452965676
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 710

Book Description
Perhaps the most important aesthetics of the twentieth century appears here newly translated, in English that is for the first time faithful to the intricately demanding language of the original German. The culmination of a lifetime of aesthetic investigation, Aesthetic Theory is Adorno’s major work, a defense of modernism that is paradoxical in its defense of illusion. In it, Adorno takes up the problem of art in a day when “it goes without saying that nothing concerning art goes without saying.” In the course of his discussion, Adorno revisits such concepts as the sublime, the ugly, and the beautiful, demonstrating that concepts such as these are reservoirs of human experience. These experiences ultimately underlie aesthetics, for in Adorno’s formulation “art is the sedimented history of human misery.” Robert Hullot-Kentor’s translation painstakingly, yet fluently, reproduces the nuances and particularities of the original. Long awaited and significant, Aesthetic Theory is the clarifying lens through which the whole of Adorno’s work is best viewed, providing a framework within which his other major writings cohere.

Hume's Aesthetic Theory

Author: Dabney Townsend
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134568029
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Book Description
Hume's Aesthetic Theory examines the neglected area of the development of aesthetics in empiricist thinking, exploring the link between the empiricist background of aesthetics in the eighteenth century and the work of David Hume. This is a major contribution to our understanding of Hume's general philosophy and provides fresh insights into the history of aesthetics.

Kant's Aesthetic Theory

Author: Donald W. Crawford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780608118338
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description

Examining a New Paradigm of Heritage With Philosophy, Economy, and Education

Author: Queirós, António dos Santos
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 179983638X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
OECD, UNESCO, the European Union, and the United Nations acknowledge that formal educational systems alone cannot respond to rapid and constant technological, social, and economic change in society and that they should be reinforced by non-formal educational practices. Examining a New Paradigm of Heritage With Philosophy, Economy, and Education is a critical scholarly publication that provides comprehensive research on the sustainability of identity and cultural heritage. The book establishes uniform and consistent conceptual criteria to identify and distinguish the different typological categories of heritage and discusses the concept of “cultural landscape” and environmental ethics. Moreover, connections between cultural heritage and natural heritage and the economy of heritage are explored. Finally, the book discusses cultural landscape as an educational resource with reading and interpretation of the cultural landscape as a basis for learning with a methodology of experimental science and its first metamorphosis of value. Featuring a range of topics such as curriculum design, ethics, and environmental tourism, this book is ideal for academicians, sociologists, biologists, researchers, policymakers, and students.