Aesthetic Theory

by Adorno, Theodor W.

• ISBN13: 9780710209900
• ISBN10: 0710209908
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1986-12-01
• Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul

Summary

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 Theodor W. Adorno's magnum opus, the clarifying lens through which the whole of his work is best viewed, providing a framework within which his other major writings cohere.

Table of Contents

Translator's Acknowledgments
Translator's Introduction
Art, Society, Aesthetics	p. 1
Situation	p. 16
On the Categories of the Ugly, the Beautiful, and Technique	p. 45
Natural Beauty	p. 61
Art Beauty; Apparition, Spiritualization, Intuitability	p. 78
Semblance and Expression	p. 100
Enigmaticalness, Truth Content, Metaphysics	p. 118
Coherence and Meaning	p. 136
Subject-Object	p. 163
Toward a Theory of the Artwork	p. 175
Universal and Particular	p. 199
Society	p. 225
Paralipomena	p. 262
Theories on the Origin of Art	p. 325
Draft Introduction	p. 332
Editors' Afterword	p. 361
Notes	p. 367
Index	p. 379
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