Aesthetic Theory (Theory & History of Literature) Paperback - 1998
by Theodor W. Adorno Robert Hullot-Kentor
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- Title Aesthetic Theory (Theory & History of Literature)
- Author Theodor W. Adorno Robert Hullot-Kentor
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First printing o
- Condition New
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Univ of Minnesota Pr, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date 1998
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1-0816618003
- ISBN 9780816618002 / 0816618003
- Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
- Dimensions 8.92 x 5.98 x 0.85 in (22.66 x 15.19 x 2.16 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Aesthetics
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96007729
- Dewey Decimal Code 111.85
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From the rear cover
The culmination of a lifetime of aesthetic investigation, Aesthetic Theory is Adorno's major work, a defense of modernism that is paradoxical in its defense of illusion. In it, Adorno takes up the problem of art in a day when "it goes without saying that nothing concerning art goes without saying". In the course of his discussion, Adorno revisits such concepts as the sublime, the ugly, and the beautiful, demonstrating that concepts such as these are reservoirs of human experience. These experiences ultimately underlie aesthetics, for in Adorno's formulation "art is the sedimented history of human misery".