Thus Della Volpe was later to criticize Adorno trenchantly for aesthetic conservatism. His essays on the cinema (collected in a ... 3Della Volpe’s interest in Eckhardt, as the mystical precursor of ...
It is a spirited leftist polemic promoting I.A. Richards’s “practical criticism” (which became the post-Eliotic English department’s core program) as a form of “aesthetic education ...
The TikTok aesthetics industrial complex never sleeps. Monoculture is dead, but the bright side to this is that now, more than ever, you can find niche styles that cater to your specific tastes ...
Thus, even as Adorno stresses how damaged the world is, happiness can nevertheless be pursued in it—hence the precarious nature of Adorno’s conception of the good life. The Nation spoke with Gordon ...
What was it Hegel said? “Are you going to eat your ... collectively or individually, into an aesthetic or spiritual conception of what society should look like. (As I wrote about here, Randolph ...
In the passages from Lectures on Aesthetics (1817–29) discussed here, Hegel finds an Indian nation underwritten by the production of epic, analogous in some respects to the novel’s role in the ...