Aesthetic Theory
by Theodor W. Adorno · first published 1970
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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 h
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Here goes: Aesthetic Theory is a posthumous book by German philosopher Theodore Adorno and is one of the most important works on aesthetics in 20th century philosophy. In it, he combines elements from Kant, Hegel and Marx. From…
on “Understanding Aesthetics with Deep Learning” ↗…Stove or his works. So he may qualify. I'll certainly check him out later, however! As for the works of Adorno's that are worth reading: Negative Dialectics, Dialectic of Enlightenment, Minima Moralia, Aesthetic Theory, His works on Hegel. And there's more--those are the major works. Your last sentence smacks of someone who has never even read a page of Adorno but rather has some generic, skewed conception of "critical…
on “The Utopian Promise of Adorno’s ‘Open Thinking,’ Fifty Years On” ↗I'm sure you'll do some thinking on the philosophy of art front. To name a few recommendations: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (1970) and Dewey's Art as Experience (1934). > Art [as a creation] does not imitate nature, it imitates a creation [or nature, in a Spinozian meaning, which is but an eternal activity of creation], sometimes…
on “I plan to leave tech to pursue art” ↗I think that's generally the case. In Aesthetic Theory (which is fairly inaccessible to the general public, probably best to read this[0] article instead) Adorno suggests that art mediums progressively annihilate each other as technology advances and the…
on “Did too many games release in Q3 of 2024?” ↗