Aesthetic TheoryAdorno's magnum opus, in which he summarises his life's thinking on concepts of beauty, the ugly and the sublime. |
Contents
Chapter 1 Art Society Aesthetics | 1 |
Chapter 2 Situation | 23 |
Chapter 3 On the Categories of the Ugly the Beautiful and Technique | 63 |
Chapter 4 Natural Beauty | 85 |
Apparition Spiritualization Intuitability | 109 |
Chapter 6 Semblance and Expression | 139 |
Chapter 7 Enigmaticalness Truth Content Metaphysics | 163 |
Chapter 8 Coherence and Meaning | 187 |
Chapter 10 Toward a Theory of the Artwork | 241 |
Chapter 11 Universal and Particular | 273 |
Chapter 12 Society | 307 |
Chapter 13 Paralipomena | 355 |
Chapter 14 Theories on the Origin of Art Excursus | 429 |
Chapter 15 Draft Introduction | 439 |
Chapter 16 Editors Afterword | 477 |
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abstract achieved adorno aesthetic experience Aesthetic Theory antinomy appearance art’s artworks become authentic autonomy Baudelaire Beethoven Benjamin bourgeois character claim comportment concept concrete consciousness constitutive contemporary content Inhalt critical critique cubism culture industry dialectic domination dynamic element emancipation empirical reality enigmaticalness essence everything existence expression external false false consciousness fashion fetish force forces of production formal function genres hegel hegel’s heteronomous historical human idea ideal ideology immanent immediacy impulse in-itself individual insofar integration judgment Jugendstil Kant Kant’s kitsch language law of form logic longer material means mediated mimesis mimetic modern art natural beauty negation nexus nominalistic object objectivation ofthe once opposition origin particular philistine philosophy play possible praxis precisely primacy principle production progress rationality reflection reification relation relations of production repressed semblance sensual simply social society spirit sublime technique teleology traditional trans transcends transformed truth content unity universal virtue wants work’s