![]() ![]() Against a whole range of formalist or expressivist or mimeticist theories, Adorno insists on the historicity of art and aesthetic evaluation. Yet perhaps the most substantial obstacle to a proper English-speaking reception of Adorno's aesthetic theory has been its double-edged relation to what is generally understood by `philosophical aesthetics' itself. As a result, isolated theses or polemics have often been extracted from Adorno's work without a proper sense of their philosophical context. ![]() Beyond this, however, the difficulty has sometimes been the comparative unfamiliarity of an English-speaking audience with a German philosophical tradition which is the very element in which Adorno's thought lives and moves. ![]() The only existing English translation of Adorno's major treatise, Aesthetic Theory, was recently withdrawn by its publishers because of its inaccuracy (although another attempt is to be published shortly). Īdorno's philosophical aesthetics has thus far been unevenly received in the English-speaking world. ![]()
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