Adorno Politics And The Aesthetic Animal
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Author |
: Caleb J. Basnett |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 2021-07-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781487541460 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1487541465 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Adorno, Politics, and the Aesthetic Animal by : Caleb J. Basnett
Built upon the principle that divides and elevates humans above other animals, humanism is the cornerstone of a worldview that sanctifies inequality and threatens all animal life. Adorno, Politics, and the Aesthetic Animal analyses this state of affairs and suggests an alternative – a way for humanity to make itself into a new kind of animal. Theodor W. Adorno has been accused of leading critical theory into a blind alley, divorced from practical social and political concerns. In Adorno, Politics, and the Aesthetic Animal, Caleb J. Basnett argues that by placing the problem of the human/animal distinction at the centre of Adorno’s thought, we discover a new Adorno, one whose critique of domination is in dialogue with classic concerns of political thought forged by Aristotle, including questions of humanist political education and the role of art. Through a close reading of primary sources, Basnett identifies the principal conceptual structure entwined with the understanding of human life as antagonistic to other animals, and outlines how forms of aesthetic experience disrupt this problematic concept in favour of a reconceptualization of what we call human. His analysis displaces the centrality of the human and attempts to open up a space for its transformation, both in terms of how humans relate to each other and in how humans relate to other animals.
Author |
: Caleb J. Basnett |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781487541446 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1487541449 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Adorno, Politics, and the Aesthetic Animal by : Caleb J. Basnett
Reconstructing the philosophy of T.W. Adorno, this book offers a critical theory of the human/animal distinction and its relation to politics.
Author |
: Peter Sloterdijk |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 2018-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780745699882 |
ISBN-13 |
: 074569988X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Aesthetic Imperative by : Peter Sloterdijk
In this wide-ranging book, renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk examines art in all its rich and varied forms: from music to architecture, light to movement, and design to typography. Moving between the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, his analyses span the centuries, from ancient civilizations to contemporary Hollywood. With great verve and insight he considers the key issues that have faced thinkers from Aristotle to Adorno, looking at art in its relation to ethics, metaphysics, society, politics, anthropology and the subject. Sloterdijk explores a variety of topics, from the Greco-Roman invention of postcards to the rise of the capitalist art market, from the black boxes and white cubes of modernism to the growth of museums and memorial culture. In doing so, he extends his characteristic method of defamiliarization to transform the way we look at works of art and artistic movements. His bold and original approach leads us away from the well-trodden paths of conventional art history to develop a theory of aesthetics which rejects strict categorization, emphasizing instead the crucial importance of individual subjectivity as a counter to the latent dangers of collective culture. This sustained reflection, at once playful, serious and provocative, goes to the very heart of Sloterdijk’s enduring philosophical preoccupation with the aesthetic. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of philosophy and aesthetics and will appeal to anyone interested in culture and the arts more generally.
Author |
: Detlev Claussen |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 466 |
Release |
: 2009-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674029590 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674029593 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Theodor W. Adorno by : Detlev Claussen
This book gives us our first clear look at how the man and his moment met to create “critical theory.” An intimate picture of the quintessential twentieth-century transatlantic intellectual, the book is also a window on the cultural ferment of Adorno’s day—and its ongoing importance in our own.
Author |
: Theodor Adorno |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2020-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781788738583 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1788738586 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aesthetics and Politics by : Theodor 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. With an afterword by Fredric Jameson No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous, interlinked debate between thinkers who have become giants of twentieth-century intellectual history.
Author |
: Theodor Adorno |
Publisher |
: Verso |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1844670511 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781844670512 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Minima Moralia by : Theodor Adorno
"A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature." Susan Sontag
Author |
: Stephen F. Eisenman |
Publisher |
: Reaktion Books |
Total Pages |
: 311 |
Release |
: 2013-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781780232126 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1780232128 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cry of Nature by : Stephen F. Eisenman
The eighteenth century saw the rise of new and more sympathetic understanding of animals as philosophy, literature, and art argued that animals could feel and therefore possess inalienable rights. This idea gave birth to a diverse movement that affects how we understand our relationship to the natural world. The Cry of Nature details a crucial period in the history of this movement, revealing the significant role art played in the growth of animal rights. Stephen F. Eisenman shows how artists from William Hogarth to Pablo Picasso and Sue Coe have represented the suffering, chastisement, and execution of animals. These artists, he demonstrates, illustrate the lessons of Montaigne, Rousseau, Darwin, Freud, and others—that humans and animals share an evolutionary heritage of sentience, intelligence, and empathy, and thus animals deserve equal access to the domain of moral right. Eisenman also traces the roots of speciesism to the classical world and describes the social role of animals in the demand for emancipation. Instructive, challenging, and always engaging, The Cry of Nature is a book for anyone interested in animal rights, art history, and the history of ideas.
Author |
: Juhana Toivanen |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 448 |
Release |
: 2020-10-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004438460 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004438467 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy by : Juhana Toivanen
In The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy Juhana Toivanen investigates the foundations of human social life through the Aristotelian notion of ‘political animal’, as it was used in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Author |
: Vanessa Lemm |
Publisher |
: Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780823230273 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0823230279 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy by : Vanessa Lemm
This book explores the significance of human animality in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and provides the first systematic treatment of the animal theme in Nietzsche's corpus as a whole Lemm argues that the animal is neither a random theme nor a metaphorical device in Nietzsche's thought. Instead, it stands at the center of his renewal of the practice and meaning of philosophy itself. Lemm provides an original contribution to on-going debates on the essence of humanism and its future. At the center of this new interpretation stands Nietzsche's thesis that animal life and its potential for truth, history, and morality depends on a continuous antagonism between forgetfulness (animality) and memory (humanity). This relationship accounts for the emergence of humanity out of animality as a function of the antagonism between civilization and culture. By taking the antagonism of culture and civilization to be fundamental for Nietzsche's conception of humanity and its becoming, Lemm gives a new entry point into the political significance of Nietzsche's thought. The opposition between civilization and culture allows for the possibility that politics is more than a set of civilizational techniques that seek to manipulate, dominate, and exclude the animality of the human animal. By seeing the deep-seated connections of politics with culture, Nietzsche orients politics beyond the domination over life and, instead, offers the animality of the human being a positive, creative role in the organization of life. Lemm's book presents Nietzsche as the thinker of an emancipatory and affirmative biopolitics. This book will appeal not only to readers interested in Nietzsche, but also to anyone interested in the theme of the animal in philosophy, literature, cultural studies and the arts, as well as those interested in the relation between biological life and politics.
Author |
: Fabian Freyenhagen |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2013-07-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107036543 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107036542 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Adorno's Practical Philosophy by : Fabian Freyenhagen
A unique exploration of Adorno's ethics, defending his challenging views about how to live in an evil world.