| Aesthetic Theory Revised Edition Contributor(s): Adorno, Theodor W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0485300699 ISBN-13: 9780485300697 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $289.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2007 Annotation: The most important aesthetics of the century, this is a long-awaited work, the culmination of a lifetime's investigation. Among the twelve major sections are Art, Society, Aesthetics; the Categories of the Ugly, the Beautiful, the Technics; Natural Beauty; Coherence and Subject-Object; Towards a Theory of the Artwork. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Humanism - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 128.2 |
| Series: Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.67 lbs) 416 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |