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Aesthetics of Negativity - Blanchot, Adorno, and Autonomy (Hardcover)
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Aesthetics of Negativity - Blanchot, Adorno, and Autonomy (Hardcover)
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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Maurice Blanchot and Theodor W. Adorno are among the most difficult
but also the most profound thinkers in twentieth-century
aesthetics. While their methods and perspectives differ widely,
they share a concern with the negativity of the artwork conceived
in terms of either its experience and possibility or its critical
expression. Such negativity is neither nihilistic nor pessimistic
but concerns the status of the artwork and its autonomy in relation
to its context or its experience. For both Blanchot and Adorno
negativity is the key to understanding the status of the artwork in
post-Kantian aesthetics and, although it indicates how art
expresses critical possibilities, albeit negatively, it also shows
that art bears an irreducible ambiguity such that its meaning can
always negate itself. This ambiguity takes on an added material
significance when considered in relation to language as the
negativity of the work becomes aesthetic in the further sense of
being both sensible and experimental, and in doing so the language
of the literary work becomes a form of thinking that enables
materiality to be thought in its ambiguity. In a series of rich and
compelling readings, William S. Allen shows how an original and
rigorous mode of thinking arises within Blanchot's early writings
and how Adorno's aesthetics depends on a relation between language
and materiality that has been widely overlooked. Furthermore, by
reconsidering the problem of the autonomous work of art in terms of
literature, a central issue in modernist aesthetics is given a
greater critical and material relevance as a mode of thinking that
is abstract and concrete, rigorous and ambiguous. While examples of
this kind of writing can be found in the works of Blanchot and
Beckett, the demands that such texts place on readers only confirm
the challenges and the possibilities that literary autonomy poses
to thought.
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