On the Difficulty of Reading Aesthetic Theory Today: Reasons and Consequences

Authors

  • Fabio Akcelrud Durao Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Keywords:

Th. W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, the contemporary, self-reference

Abstract

This article approaches the question of Th. W. Adorno’s relevance to the present by arguing that his oeuvre has become irrelevant. To its well-known layers of difficulty another must be added, the narrowing down of the horizon of what can be thought, which leads Aesthetic Theory to acquire a layer of unintelligibility. The work’s response consists in doubling its theoretical wager and attempting to itself provide the conceptual context reality denies it. The article concludes with a few considerations on the political potential of such procedure.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

ADORNO, Theodor W. (2003): “El ensayo como forma”, en Notas sobre literatura, ed. de R. Tiedemann, trad. de A. Brotons. Obra completa, 11, Madrid, Akal, 11-34.

ADORNO, Theodor W. (2004): Teoría estética, ed. de R. Tiedemann, trad. de J. Navarro Pérez. Madrid, Ediciones Akal.

ADORNO, Theodor W. (2008): “Sobre la tradición” en Crítica de la cultura y sociedad I, ed. de R. Tiedemann, trad. de J. Navarro Pérez. Obra completa, 10/1, Madrid, Akal 2008, 271-280.

ADORNO, Theodor W. (2012): Tres estudios sobre Hegel, ed. de R. Tiedemann, trad. de J. Chamorro Mielke. Obra completa, 5, Madrid, Akal.

BARTHES, Roland ([1971]1994): “De l’œuvre au texte”. In: Œuvres Complètes, vol.2. Paris, Seuil.

BARTHES, Roland ([1967] 1994 ): “La mort de l’auteur”. In: Œuvres Complètes, vol.2. Paris: Seuil.

BOURDIEU, Pierre (1979). La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement. Paris, Minuit.

BROWN, Nicholas (2019): Autonomy. The Social Ontology of Art Under Capitalism. Durham, NC, Duke U.P.

BÜRGER, Peter (1974): Theorie der Avantgarde. Frankfurt a.M., Suhrkamp.

CACHOPO, João Pedro (2013): Verdade e Enigma. Ensaio sobre o Pensamento Estético de Adorno. Lisboa, Edições Vendaval.

DURÃO, Fabio Akcelrud (2008): Modernism and Coherence: Four Chapters of a Negative Aesthetics. Frankfurt a.M., Peter Lang.

DURÃO, Fabio Akcelrud (2011): “De volta a Adorno na interpretação da cultura”. Revista FronteiraZ, São Paulo, n. 7, deciembre.

DURÃO, Fabio Akcelrud (2013): “Variaciones acerca de los equívocos del debate sobre el canon”. Literatura: teoría, historia y crítica, v. 15, p. 187-200.

DURÃO, Fabio Akcelrud (2017): “A Imagem de Pensamento como Forma”, Pandemonium Germanicum, Sa?o Paulo, v. 20, n. 32, set.-dez., 21-34.

DURÃO, Fabio Akcelrud (2019): Do texto à obra e outros ensaios. Curitiba, Appris, 2019.

FELSKI, Rita (2015): The Limits of Critique. Chicago, Chicago U.P.

GUILLORY, John (1993): Cultural Capital. The problem of literary canon formation. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

HARTOG, François (2012): Régimes de historicité. Paris, Seuil.

HULLOT-KENTOR, Robert (2016): “El sentido exacto en el que ya no existe la Industria Cultural”. Constelaciones. Revista De Teoría Crítica, 3, págs. 3-23.

MANSOUR, Chris (2016). “Praxis, teoría y lo irrealizable: Una entrevista con Robert Hullot-Kentor”. Constelaciones. Revista De Teoría Crítica, 5, 336-351.

n+1, editores. “Too Much Sociology”, vol. 16, Spring 2013.

RICHTER, Gerhard (2007): Thought-images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life. Stanford, Stanford U.P., 2007.

SAFATLE, Vladimir (2019): Dar Corpo ao Impossível. O sentido da dialética a partir de Theodor Adorno Belo Horizonte, Autêntica.

Published

2020-12-31

How to Cite

Durao, F. A. (2020). On the Difficulty of Reading Aesthetic Theory Today: Reasons and Consequences. Constelaciones. Revista De Teoría Crítica, 11(11-12), 43–56. Retrieved from https://constelaciones-rtc.net/article/view/3738