Adorno and/with Heidegger: From Modernism to Postmodernism
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Adorno, Heidegger, modernism, postmodernismAbstract
In L'oeuvre de l'art. La relation esthétique (1997) Gérard Genette notes that, »the apparently incongruous rapprochement between Heidegger and Adorno is justified by a symmetrical relation between these two antithetical forms of overvaluation« of art. In the 20 th century Adorno and Heidegger put forth two different sets of arguments for the paramount importance of art. While the former offered a philosophy of modernist art and interpreted it as a negativity within the means-end rationality of everyday bourgeois existence, the latter praised poetry and art for being a rare modern instance of the disclosure of truth. Within a century exemplified by master narratives promoting collective agendas, they both denigrated the social function of art, thereby promoting the ideals of modernism (the urban, new and transient) and its unreconciliated »other« (the rural, traditional and »eternal«). Are the early 21st century artDownloads
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2016-01-06
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Erjavec, A. (2016). Adorno and/with Heidegger: From Modernism to Postmodernism. Filozofski Vestnik, 23(1). Retrieved from https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/3422
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