Messages in a Bottle and Other Things Lost to the Sea: The Other Side of Critical Theory or a Reevaluation of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory

Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2012 (160):77-97 (2012)
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"I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.1" "Saul Bellow"IntroductionAlthough analyses of artworks are limited in Adorno's oeuvre, I will argue that his critical theory is awash with images crystallizing thoughts to such a degree that it has every reason to be described as aesthetic. Adorno's first and final book-length publications dealt explicitly with…

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Letters to Walter Benjamin.Theodor Adorno - 1977 - In Theodor W. Adorno (ed.), Aesthetics and politics. New York: Verso. pp. 110--33.

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