Adorno''s Modernism - Art, Experience, and Catastrophe

The book is a study of Adorno's aesthetics, its philosophical background, and its account of aesthetic modernism.

List of contents

Preface; Introduction; 1. Art and the problem of modernity; 2. The beautiful and the sublime: an aesthetics of nature; 3. The dialectic of aesthetic autonomy; 4. Language, truth, and semblance; 5. A topography of nothingness: Adorno on Beckett; 6. Experience and metaphysics: the legacy of Kant; 7. An aesthetics of negativity; Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Espen Hammer is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, Philadelphia. He has published many essays and books, including Stanley Cavell: Skepticism, Subjectivity, and the Ordinary (2002), Adorno and the Political (2006), Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory (Cambridge, 2011) and The Routledge Handbook of the Frankfurt School (co-edited with Axel Honneth and Peter Gordon, forthcoming), and is the editor of German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives (2007).

Summary

Situating Adorno's aesthetics in the context of post-Kantian European philosophy, this book explores his contribution to an understanding of modernism in the arts. Espen Hammer also discusses the philosophical significance of aesthetic modernism. The volume is of particular interest to scholars and students of social philosophy, art, and aesthetics.

Product details

• Authors: Espen Hammer, Espen (Temple University Hammer, Hammer Espen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107121591
• ISBN: 978-1-107-12159-1
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -