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The Memory And Expectation Of Aesthetics A Study Of Adornos Aesthetic Theory Alan Mcpherson Ba

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Publisher: The School of Arts and Education, Middlesex University

File Extension: PDF

File size: 1.42 MB

Pages: 218

Author: Alan McPherson BA., MA

Language: English

Year: 2009

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The Memory And Expectation Of Aesthetics A Study Of Adornos Aesthetic Theory Alan Mcpherson Ba by Alan Mcpherson Ba., Ma instant download after payment.

This study aims to clarify the underlying conceptual structure of Adorno‟s theoretical
position with regard to both philosophy and art and to examine the expectation of
philosophical aesthetics. I introduceAesthetic Theoryfrom a morphological point of view
and claim that the form and structure of this unfinished text reveals a great deal about the
book, as it exemplifies Adorno‟s theory of meaning. I claim that for Adorno dialectic is
better thought of not in its Hegelian form but as a Kantian antinomy. This is because the
dialectical oppositions he identifies cannot be resolved under the capitalist conditions of
the administered world. I claim that philosophy understood as the construction of a form
of totality, the constellation, provides the key to understanding Adorno‟s theory of
meaning. This theory consists of three linked concepts: midpoint, constellation and
parataxis. I further claim that for Adorno art and philosophy are structured in the same
way. Adorno has in effect developed a conception of art that depends for its ultimate
justification on the concept of rank as explicated by the completion of the work of art by
philosophy. Art and theory are thus entwined in a mimetic relationship.I claim there is a
temporal dichotomy at the centre of Adorno‟s conception of the work of art, that it is both
transient and absolute. This antinomy is what makes the work of art a paradoxically
absolute commodity precisely because Adorno‟s concept of the work of art is modelled
on the commodity form. I claim that Adorno‟s conception of the artwork as an instant is
clearly closely related, in a structural and conceptual sense, to his conception of how
philosophy works. Truth for Adorno is always located in the present instant. My textual
analysis leads me to claim that for Adorno a utopian element is involved in writing a
negative dialectical text.Finally, I claim that a theory of the art form in all its different
typologies is best suited to carry out detailed critique and theoretical reflection on
contemporary art. Philosophical aesthetics can only supply an historical perspective.