The sovereignty of art : aesthetic negativity in Adorno and Derrida (Record no. 546285)

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International Standard Book Number 9780262631952
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Classification number 111.85
Item number MEN
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Personal name Menke, Christoph, 1958-; Solomon, Neil
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Title The sovereignty of art : aesthetic negativity in Adorno and Derrida
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Cambridge, Mass.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. MIT Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1998
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Extent xiii, 310 pages ; 23 cm
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Introduction: Autonomy and Sovereignty -- I. On the Negative Logic of Aesthetic Experience. 1. The Concept of Aesthetic Negativity. 2. Aesthetic Deferral. 3. The Aesthetics of Negativity and Hermeneutics. 4. On the Concept of Beauty -- II. An Aesthetic Critique of Reason. 5. Aesthetic Sovereignty. 6. Problems in Grounding the Critique of Reason. 7. The Aesthetic Experience of Crisis. 8. Romantic and Modern Aesthetics: The Place of Art in the "Philosophical Discourse of Modernity."
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Summary, etc. Christoph Menke attempts to explain art's sovereign power over reason without falling into an error common to Adorno's negative dialectics and Derrida's deconstruction. The error, which appeared even earlier in romanticism, is to conceive of the sovereignty of art as a reflection of the superiority of its knowledge; but art entails no knowledge, and its negativity toward reason cannot be articulated as an insight into the nature of reason. Rather, art is the medium of an experience that confronts reason from the outside with an insurmountable, never-ending crisis. Art is sovereign not despite, but because of, its autonomy. Its power to subvert reason depends on its separateness from reason. Menke brings to his arguments a firm grounding in both philosophy and literary studies, as well as familiarity with German, French, and American sources
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