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Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth

Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth

Hulatt, Owen

Hardcover

Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art

PhilosophyArt Criticism & Theory

ISBN10: 0231177240
ISBN13: 9780231177245
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Sep 27 2016
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

In Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth, Owen Hulatt undertakes an original reading of Theodor W. Adorno's epistemology and its material underpinnings, deepening our understanding of his theories of truth, art, and the nonidentical. Hulatt's novel interpretation casts Adorno's theory of philosophical and aesthetic truth as substantially unified, supporting the thinker's claim that both philosophy and art are capable of being true.

For Adorno, truth is produced when rhetorical texture combines with cognitive performance, leading to the breakdown of concepts that mediate the experience of the consciousness. Both philosophy and art manifest these features, although philosophy enacts these conceptual issues directly, while art does so obliquely. Hulatt builds a robust argument for Adorno's claim that concepts ineluctably misconstrue their objects. He also puts the still influential thinker into conversation with Hegel, Husserl, Frazer, Sohn-Rethel, Benjamin, Strawson, Dahlhaus, Habermas, and Caillois, among many others.

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