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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255291503321

Autore

Ross Nathan

Titolo

The Philosophy and Politics of Aesthetic Experience : German Romanticism and Critical Theory / / by Nathan Ross

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-52304-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 253 p.)

Collana

Political Philosophy and Public Purpose, , 2524-714X

Disciplina

320.01

Soggetti

Political theory

Political communication

Aesthetics

Fine arts

Critical theory

Idealism, German

Political Theory

Political Communication

Fine Arts

Critical Theory

German Idealism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Aesthetic Semblance and Play as Responses to the Disfigurement of Human Social Existence in Schiller’s Aesthetic Education -- 3. Aesthetic Experience at the Limits of Thought in Hölderlin’s New Letters on Aesthetic Education -- 4. The Endless Pursuit of Universal Sense in Friedrich Schlegel’s Political and Aesthetic Thought -- 5. Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy of Critical Experience—From the Romantic Artwork to the Disillusioning of Mimesis -- 6. Aesthetic Truth as the Mimesis of False Consciousness in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory -- 7. Conclusion: The Benjamin–Adorno Debate on the Nature of Aesthetic Experience.



Sommario/riassunto

This book develops a philosophy of aesthetic experience through two socially significant philosophical movements: early German Romanticism and early critical theory. In examining the relationship between these two closely intertwined movements, we see that aesthetic experience is not merely a passive response to art—it is the capacity to cultivate true personal autonomy, and to critique the social and political context of our lives. Art is political for these thinkers, not only when it paints a picture of society, but even more when it makes us aware of our deeply ingrained forms of experience in a transformative way. Ultimately, the book argues that we have to think of art as a form of truth that is not reducible to communicative rationality or scientific knowledge, and from which philosophy and politics can learn valuable lessons.