Sovereignty of Art Aesthetic Negativity in Adorno and Derrida
| Author/creator | Menke, Christoph Author |
| Other author | Solomon, Neil Translator |
| Other author | McCarthy, Thomas Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | Reprint |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : MIT Press |
| Description | 328 p. ill 09.000 x 06.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought Ser. |
| Summary | Annotation Recent discussions of aesthetics, whether in the hermeneutic or the analytictradition, understand the place of art and aesthetic experience according to a model of"autonomy"--as just one among the many modes of experience that make up the realm of reason,situated beside the other "spheres of value." In contrast, Theodor Adorno and Jacques Derrida viewart and aesthetic experience as a medium for the dissolution of nonaesthetic reason, anexperientially enacted critique of reason. Art is not only autonomous, following its own law,different from nonaesthetic reason, but sovereign: it subverts the rule of reason.In this bookChristoph Menke attempts to explain art's sovereign power to subvert reason without falling into anerror common to Adorno's negative dialectics and Derrida's deconstruction. The error, which alreadyappeared in romanticism, is to conceive of the sovereignty of art as reflecting the superiority ofits knowledge. For art entails no knowledge and its negativity toward reason cannot be articulatedas an insight into the nature of reason: art is sovereign not despite, but because of, its autonomy.Menke brings to his arguments a firm grounding in both philosophy and literary studies, as well asfamiliarity with German, French, and American sources. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 97046401 |
| ISBN | 9780262631952 |
| ISBN | 0262631954 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780262631952 |
| Stock number | 0262631954 00015994 |
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