Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth Hardback
by Owen Hulatt
Part of the Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts series
Hardback
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In Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth, Owen Hulatt undertakes an original reading of Theodor W.
Adorno's epistemology and its material underpinnings, deepening our understanding of his theories of truth, art, and the nonidentical.
Hulatt's novel interpretation casts Adorno's theory of philosophical and aesthetic truth as substantially unified, supporting the thinker's claim that both philosophy and art are capable of being true. For Adorno, truth is produced when rhetorical "texture" combines with cognitive "performance," leading to the breakdown of concepts that mediate the experience of the consciousness.
Both philosophy and art manifest these features, although philosophy enacts these conceptual issues directly, while art does so obliquely.
Hulatt builds a robust argument for Adorno's claim that concepts ineluctably misconstrue their objects.
He also puts the still influential thinker into conversation with Hegel, Husserl, Frazer, Sohn-Rethel, Benjamin, Strawson, Dahlhaus, Habermas, and Caillois, among many others.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Columbia University Press
- Publication Date:27/09/2016
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- ISBN:9780231177245
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Columbia University Press
- Publication Date:27/09/2016
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- ISBN:9780231177245
