Aesthetic Theory (PDF)

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Synopsis

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'.

Book details

Author:
Theodor W Adorno
ISBN:
9781780936598
Related ISBNs:
9781780936598
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2016-05-09
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2013
Copyright by:
Bloomsbury Publishing 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Art and Architecture, Nonfiction, Philosophy