Aesthetic Theory - Bloomsbury Revelations

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Aesthetic Theory

Aesthetic Theory - Bloomsbury Revelations

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Theodor Adorno (1903-69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School, the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US in the 1930s, including such thinkers as Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer. His work has proved enormously influential in sociology, philosophy and cultural theory. Aesthetic Theory is Adorno's posthumous magnum opus and the culmination of a lifetime's investigation. Analysing the sublime, the ugly and the beautiful, Adorno shows how such concepts frame and distil human experience and that it is human experience that ultimately underlies aesthetics. In Adorno's formulation ‘art is the sedimented history of human misery'.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781780936598
ISBN10 1780936591
Number Of Pages 512
Item Weight 300 g
Product Dimensions 136 x 212 x 36 mm
Publisher / Reseller Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format paperback
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Theodor W. Adorno (1903-69) was a founder and arguably the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School. He worked with Max Horkheimer at the New York Institute for Social Research and later taught at the University of Frankfurt until his death in 1969. His work has proved enormously influential in sociology, philosophy and cultural theory.

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