by Theodor W. Adorno · A&C Black · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780826476913
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«Aesthetic Theory» is Theodor W. Adorno's essay on aesthetics and philosophy, published by A&C Black in paperback (512 pages, in English).
Aesthetic Theory, Theodor W. Adorno's posthumous essay, analyses the sublime, the ugly and the beautiful as categories that organise human experience, and considers art as the historical sedimentation of suffering. It studies the relations between art, society, technique, natural beauty and the internal structure of the work of art.
Translated by Robert Hullot-Kentor; edited by Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedemann. Work originally published in 1970.
Aimed at readers of philosophy, critical theory and cultural studies interested in aesthetics and the Frankfurt School.
Theodor W. Adorno was a German philosopher, cultural, and music critic. He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has come to be associated with thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse, for whom the works of Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and G. W. F. Hegel were essential to a critique of modern society. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, his writings—such as Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), Minima Moralia (1951), and Negative Dialectics (1966)—strongly influenced the European New Left.
