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620:, Adorno is concerned not only with such standard aesthetic preoccupations as the function of beauty and sublimity in art, but with the relations between art and society. He feels that modern art's freedom from such restrictions as cult and imperial functions that had plagued previous eras of art has led to art's expanded critical capacity and increased formal autonomy. With this expanded autonomy comes art's increased responsibility for societal commentary. However, Adorno does not feel that overtly politicized content is art's greatest critical strength: rather, he champions a more abstracted type of "truth-content" ( 129: 516: 504: 652:
was edited by Gretel Adorno (the philosopher's widow) and Rolf Tiedemann from Adorno's working drafts. It was assembled from unfinished manuscripts Adorno had composed between May 4, 1961, and July 16, 1969, mainly between October 25, 1966, and January 24, 1968. A series of revisions were undertaken
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An initial English translation by Christian Lenhardt in 1984 broke "the original single-paragraph sections into smaller paragraphs". Robert Hullot-Kentor's 1997 translation attempted to reproduce the mostly paragraph-less presentation of the original text. This translation currently acts as the
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or idealist aesthetics, Adorno's aesthetics locates truth-content in the art object, rather than in the perception of the subject. Such content is, however, affected by art's self-consciousness at the hands of its necessary distance from society, which is perceptible in such instances as the
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interactions that emerge from the artwork's position(s) relative to subject and greater societal tradition, as well as internal dialectics within the work itself. Throughout, Adorno praises dramatist
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Adorno retraces the historical evolution of art into its paradoxical state of "semi-autonomy" within capitalist
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dissonances inherent in modern art. Truth-content is ultimately found in the relation between
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and ranked it among the most important pieces on aesthetics published in the 20th century.
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and other philosophical pursuits in keeping with Adorno's boundary-shunning methodology.
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Kaufman, Robert. "Red Kant, or the Persistence of the Third 'Critique' in Adorno and
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between September 1968 and July 1969, weeks before his death in August of that year.
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Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedemann, "Editor's Afterword" to Theodor W. Adorno,
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Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedemann, "Editor's Afterword" to Theodor W. Adorno,
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Robert Hullot-Kentor, "Translator's Introduction" to Theodor W. Adorno,
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Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory
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Late Marxism: Adorno, or, The Persistence of the Dialectic
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Adorno entry at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Adorno's Aesthetic Theory: The Redemption of Illusion
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Exact Imagination, Late Work: On Adorno's Aesthetics
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Index

Aesthetic theory

Theodor W. Adorno
Aesthetics
a series
Frankfurt School

Dialectic of Enlightenment
Eclipse of Reason
Eros and Civilization
Escape from Freedom
Minima Moralia
Negative Dialectics
One-Dimensional Man
Reason and Revolution
The Structural Transformation of
the Public Sphere

The Theory of Communicative Action
The Work of Art in the
Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Adorno
Apel
Benjamin
Fromm
Forst
GrĂĽnberg
Geuss
Habermas
Honneth
Horkheimer
Jaeggi
Kluge

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