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Aesthetic Theory

By Theodor W. Adorno

Book information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2002
ISBN
0485300699, 9780485300697
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7481777 bytes)
Series
Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers
Pages
414\414
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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’. Edited by Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedeman Translated by Robert Hullot-Kentor.>

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