Aesthetic theory

by Berndt, Frauke Mersch, Dieter Sasse, Sylvia Zanetti, Sandro

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Theodor Adorno's famous aesthetic theory was not merely a theory of the aesthetic; it also made a wider claim about the aesthetic implications of all theory. At the same time we have to deal with aesthetic objects and events in which an aesthetic theory is inherent, which show themselves as art. From both sides--theory and aesthetics--a link can be made to the etymological meaning of theoria, which understands the theoretical as a seeing or perspective. Featuring lucid essays by major thinkers,…

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Full title :Aesthetic theory / edited by Dieter Mersch, Sylvia Sasse, and Sandro Zanetti ; translated by Brian Alkire.

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Publication Date:2019

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Publisher(s):Diaphanes
Place of Publication:Zurich
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019

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Description:271 pages : illustrations (some color) : 23 cm.

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ISBN:9783035801460, 3035801460
oclc:on1276768749
LC Classification:BH39
Dewey Decimal:111.85

Rock sample : Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten / Frauke Berndt -- Theory as Resonance : Denis Diderot / Boris Previšić -- Theory as narrative : Sigmund Freud / Elisabeth Bronfen -- Auratic theory : Walter Benjamin / Sandro Zanetti -- Material aesthetics : Asger Jorn / Klaus Müller-Wille -- The theoretical act / Sylvia Sasse -- Necroperformance : theory as remains / Dorota Sajewska -- Practical epistemology / William Kentridge / Fabienne Liptay -- The formation of cosmogonies : Camille Henrot / Julia Gelshorn, Tristan Weddigen -- Facing the text : Julian Rosefeldt / Barbara Naumann -- Aesthetic judgment : Alexander Kluge / Rahel Villinger -- Aesthetic thinking : art as theōria / Dieter Mersch -- Shadows of theory : figures of thought / Benno Wirz -- Notes on the cover : Yuri Albert's Figurative thinking / Sandra Frimmel.