Adornos Rhinoceros Art Nature Critique Antonia Hofsttter by Antonia Hofstätter, Daniel Steuer, (editors) 9781350177802, 9781350177840, 1350177806, 1350177849 instant download after payment.

In Western cultural history the rhinoceros has long been a source of fascination. Throughout his work, albeit in unexpected places, the philosopher Theodor Adorno repeatedly invokes this creature. Taking their cue from one of these passages and the quote, ‘So a rhinoceros, the mute animal, seems to say: I am a rhinoceros’, the contributions to this book explore the life of this animal in Adorno’s texts, and articulate the nuanced interconnections between art, nature, and critique in his thought.
Using further examples from writers and thinkers such as G.E. Lessing, Max Horkheimer and H.G.Wells, the book unlocks the relationships between humans and animals, art and nature, expression and communication and the particular and the universal. By illuminating the key elements in Adorno’s work, this volume reveals the concise and prescient contributions that this ‘classical’ thinker can make to our current reflections on how to achieve social and political harmony.