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"Critical Models" combines into a single volume two of Adorno's most important postwar works -- "Interventions: Nine Critical Models" (1963) and "Catchwords: Critical Models II" (1969). Written after his return to Germany in 1949, the articles, essays, and radio talks included in this volume speak to the pressing political, cultural, and philosophical concerns of the postwar era. The pieces in "Critical Models" reflect the intellectually provocative as well as the practical Adorno as he addresses such issues as the dangers of ideological conformity, the fragility of democracy, educational reform, the influence of television and radio, and the aftermath of fascism. This new edition includes an introduction by Lydia Goehr, a renowned scholar in philosophy, aesthetic theory, and musicology. Goehr illuminates Adorno's ideas as well as the intellectual, historical, and critical contexts that shaped his postwar thinking.
Shells, leafwork, picture frames, hummingbirds, wallpaper
decorations, hems of clothing--such are the examples Kant's
"Critique of Judgment" offers for a "free" and purely aesthetic
beauty. Menninghaus's book demonstrates that all these examples
refer to a widely unknown debate on the arabesque and that Kant, in
displacing it, addresses genuinely "modern" phenomena. The early
Romantic poetics and literature of the arabesque follow and
radicalize Kant's move.
Shells, leafwork, picture frames, hummingbirds, wallpaper
decorations, hems of clothing--such are the examples Kant's
"Critique of Judgment" offers for a "free" and purely aesthetic
beauty. Menninghaus's book demonstrates that all these examples
refer to a widely unknown debate on the arabesque and that Kant, in
displacing it, addresses genuinely "modern" phenomena. The early
Romantic poetics and literature of the arabesque follow and
radicalize Kant's move.
In this highly original interdisciplinary study incorporating close readings of literary texts and philosophical argumentation, Henry W. Pickford develops a theory of meaning and expression in art intended to counter the meaning skepticism most commonly associated with the theories of Jacques Derrida. Pickford arrives at his theory by drawing on the writings of Wittgenstein to develop and modify the insights of Tolstoy's philosophy of art. Pickford shows how Tolstoy's encounter with Schopenhauer's thought on the one hand provided support for his ethical views but on the other hand presented a problem, exemplified in the case of music, for his aesthetic theory, a problem that Tolstoy could not successfully resolve. Wittgenstein's critical appreciation of Tolstoy's thinking, however, not only recovers its viability but also constructs a formidable position within contemporary debates concerning theories of emotion, ethics, and aesthetic expression.
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