Aesthetics and the work of art : Adorno, Kafka, Richter
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Aesthetics and the work of art : Adorno, Kafka, Richter
（Language, discourse, society）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Ten leading commentators explore the interfaces between art and aesthetics in dialogue with a philosophical text (Theodor Adorno's draft introduction to Aesthetic Theory ), a piece of literary writing (Franz Kafka's A Report to an Academy ), and a major contemporary painting (Gerhard Richter's Betty , 1988).
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements and Note on Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction
- P.de Bolla and S.H.Uhlig Theodor W. Adorno: Draft Introduction to Aesthetic Theory What Does Art Know?
- S.Jarvis Aesthetics and the Fully Emancipated Subject: Cultures, Histories and the Fictive Imagination
- T.J. Reiss Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Politics in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory
- J.Roberts Franz Kafka: 'A Report to an Academy' The Ape Speaks
- M.Tamen Kafka's Exit: Exile, Exodus and Messianism
- H.Caygill Kafka's 'A Report to an Academy' with Adorno
- S.Corngold The Matter of Memory: On Semblance and History in Richter and Adorno
- A.J.Cascardo Faces, Traces: Adorno, Kafka, Richter
- M.Redfield Ecce Pinctura: A Note on Betty 's Mastered Irony
- S.Melville Facing Betty's Turn
- P.de Bolla Index
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