By: Theodor W. Adorno, Robert Hullot-Kentor (Transcribed by)

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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'. Edited by Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedeman Translated by Robert Hullot-Kentor.

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Art, society, aesthetics	p. 1
Situation	p. 21
On the categories of the ugly, the beautiful, and technique	p. 60
Natural beauty	p. 81
Art beauty : apparition, spiritualization, intuitability	p. 104
Semblance and expression	p. 133
Enigmaticalness, truth content, metaphysics	p. 157
Coherence and meaning	p. 180
Subject-object	p. 215
Toward a theory of the artwork	p. 232
Universal and particular	p. 262
Society	p. 295
Paralipomena	p. 341
Theories on the origin of art	p. 411
Draft introduction	p. 422
Editors' afterword	p. 459
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ISBN: 9780826476913
ISBN-10: 0826476910
Series: Continuum Impacts
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 512
Published: 14th October 2004
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.9  x 2.7
Weight (kg): 0.553