Benjamin and Adorno on Art and Art Criticism : : Critique of Art /

Benjamin and Adorno on Art and Art Criticism : : Critique of Art / / Thijs Lijster.

This book brings together two of the most important figures of twentieth-century criticism, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, to consider a topic that was central to their thinking: the place of and reason for art in society and culture. Thijs Lijster takes us through points of agreement and disag...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
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Lijster, Thijs,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Critique of Art
  • 1. Autonomy and Critique
  • 2. Ends of Art
  • Excursus I – The (N)everending Story
  • 3. Experience, History, and Art
  • Excursus II – Base and Superstructure Reconsidered
  • 4. The Art of Critique
  • Excursus III – Where is the Critic?
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix – Notes on a Camp
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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