Ten leading commentators explore the interfaces between art and aesthetics indialogue with a philosophical text (Theodor Adorno's draft introduction to Aesthetic Theory), a piece of literary writing (Franz Kafka's 'A Report to an Academy'), and a major contemporary painting (Gerhard Richter's Betty, 1988). ÍNDICE: - Acknowledgements and Note on Abbreviations - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; P.de Bolla and S.H.Uhlig - Theodor W. Adorno: Draft Introduction to Aesthetic Theory - What Does Art Know?; S.Jarvis - Aesthetics and theFully Emancipated Subject: Cultures, Histories and the Fictive Imagination; T.J. Reiss - Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Politics in Adornob s Aesthetic Theory; J.Roberts - Franz Kafka: 'A Report to an Academy' - The Ape Speaks; M.Tamen - Kafkab s Exit: Exile, Exodus and Messianism; H.Caygill - Kafkab s b A Report to an Academyb with Adorno; S.Corngold - The Matter of Memory: On Semblance and History in Richter and Adorno; A.J.Cascardo - Faces, Traces: Adorno, Kafka, Richter; M.Redfield - Ecce Pinctura: A Note on Bettyb s Mastered Irony; S.Melville - Facing Bettyb s Turn; P.de Bolla - Index -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-54919-7
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha Publicación: 05/12/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés