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Adorno's magnum opus, in which he summarises his life's thinking on concepts of beauty, the ugly and the sublime.

Theodor Adorno (1903-69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School, the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US in the 1930s, including such thinkers as Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer. His work has proved enormously influential in sociology, philosophy and cultural theory. Aesthetic Theory is Adorno's posthumous magnum opus and the culmination of a lifetime's investigation. Analysing the sublime, the ugly and the beautiful, Adorno shows how such concepts frame and distil human experience and that it is human experience that ultimately underlies aesthetics. In Adorno's formulation 'art is the sedimented history of human misery'.
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  6. Book 1 of 1
    Theory and History of Literature
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Adorno's magnum opus, in which he summarises his life's thinking on concepts of beauty, the ugly and the sublime.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ BLM ACADEMIC UK
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 25 April 2013
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1780936591
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1780936598
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 626 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.9 x 2.7 x 21.6 cm
  • Book 1 of 1 ‏ : ‎ Theory and History of Literature
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    Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) was the leading figure of the Frankfurt school of critical theory. He authored more than twenty volumes, including "Negative Dialectics" (1982), "Kierkegaard" (Minnesota, 1989), "Dialectic of Enlightenment" (1975) with Max Horkheimer, and "Aesthetic Theory" (Minnesota, 1997).

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  • Thomas G Kelly
    4.0 out of 5 stars A book that gives depth and perspective to Modern Art
    Reviewed in Australia on 22 July 2021
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    I have has a long-term interest in Continental Philosophy. Adorno brought a dense understanding to 20C art and understanding him is a slow but rewarding process.
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  • Ismo Kantola
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 February 2015
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    a posthumous unfinished tour de force
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    Günstig und gut
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  • Neckar
    5.0 out of 5 stars The definite book of modernist aesthetics
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    Adorno is not famous for his writing style. His prose is dense, and sometimes impenetrable for the English reader. Yet, I think Adorno's Aesthetic Theory is one of the greatest books of XX century philosophy along with Heidegger's "Being and Time", and Wittgenstein's Tractatus. I think there are three levels of reflection in this book. The first is that AT is a sociology of art. Adorno traces the social and economic conditions of how modern art becomes to being. Industrialization and modernization have a great impact on aesthetics because perception and reality are fundamentally altered. Adorno makes the case that the destruction of nature by industry propels modern art to find its reality elsewhere by becoming abstract. Art does not want to imitate nature since nature is already destroyed. It escapes to the realm of idea(l)s in order to critique the current state of being. Aesthetics is the second level of reflection. Aesthetics in modernism becomes an instrument of social critique. Before, in the time of Kant and the idealists, aesthetic was the study of beauty and artistic genius. Now, according to Adorno, it becomes the study of social disintegration in which the artist is just the "unfortunate" medium to express it. Yet, Adorno is not a complete pessimist. He sees in aesthetic reflection a tool for utopian transformation. This transformation constitutes the third level of reading AT -the philosophical or utopian. Modern art, because it critiques this world for the sake of a better one, is also philosophy. Since philosophy was the discipline that established how the real and ideal are separated, modern art also shows this gap, and treats beauty as a poor substitute for happiness. Beauty, once idealized by the elite, becomes a sign of art's powerlessness to transform the world. This impotence, still, is a sign of art's utopian power. This kind of paradoxical reasoning is typical of Adorno, and it is loaded with political significance. Art promises something that cannot be delivered, but who delivers then?
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  • Nicholas Todd
    5.0 out of 5 stars Adorno's magnum opus?
    Reviewed in Canada on 20 March 2014
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    I have an earlier edition of this book which I found difficult to read because of the much smaller type used in its printing. I find Bloomsbury publications much more readable in that sense, and that's even more important when one is taking on a work as dense and complex as this one. I also appreciate that the margin space is such that I can add some notes of my own.

    I have not yet finished the book, but every time I read more of it I come across mind-blowing observations on the philosophy of art and its place in human society. This is the last of Adorno's major works I have not finished, and it may well prove to be the most profound of them all.
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  • Cynic spirit
    5.0 out of 5 stars For theory
    Reviewed in India on 14 January 2023
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    A detailed book review can be found anywhere. I loved the quality of the book
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