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Aesthetic Theory (Theory & History of Literature)
by Theodor W. Adorno

Aesthetic Theory (Theory & History of Literature)
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Author: Theodor W. Adorno
Editor: Robert Hullot-Kentor
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-12
ISBN: 0816618003
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

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Book Review: A pyramidal corpus of smart ideas!
Summary: 5 Stars

"The darkening of the world makes rational the irrational in art: it's an irrationality radically obscured". "The art doesn't imitate neither the nature nor to a concrete natural beauty, but the natural beauty by itself." "The efforts of the art by saving, in the remaining, all the transient, flowing and temporal, defending it from the stuffing though art is familiarized with it, bear a tension between the objectifying technique and the mimetic essence of the works."

"Aesthetical theory" is a huge compendium of smart ideas, a whole corpus of clever and revealing concepts about the role of the art. His architectural intelligence and supreme erudition literally is an engaging tour de force, an impressive gallery of sharp reflections that will motivate you, dear reader.

Since I acquired it, this book has become one of my cult texts, whose relevant importance remains beyond any other superlative you want to label it.

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