Cover of Aesthetic Theory (International Library of Phenomenology and Moral Sciences)

Aesthetic Theory (International Library of Phenomenology and Moral Sciences)

by Theodor W. Adorno

1998 448 pages eng

The culmination of a lifetime of aesthetic investigation, Aesthetic Theory is Adorno's major work, a defense of modernism that is paradoxical in its defense of illusion. In it, Adorno takes up the problem of art in a day when "it goes without saying that nothing concerning art goes without saying." …

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