Name: Aesthetics and Politics
ISBN: 9781844675708

Ernst Bloch

Theodor W. Adorno

An intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature.

Aesthetics and Politics

jess

An outstanding collection of dialogic essays gathered from the key years of imperial and aesthetic crisis surrounding the rise of Fascism and leading up to WWII. Lots of notable thoughts, interesting as to how Adorno ties the notable literary works of Kafka, Beckett, Mann, Sartre, et al onto his theory of aesthetics and that he, and other authors on this collection of essays believe that we must seek desperately to renew the aesthetic of novelty today by ever more rapid rotations of its own axis, and to hold on the aporia that contains the crux of a history beyond which we have not yet passed, and also, to perpetually reinvent one. This is an absolutely vital collection for anyone interested in the history of political aesthetics in the 20th century.