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The Sovereignty of Art

Aesthetic Experiences after Adorno and Derrida
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The Sovereignty of Art / Die Souveränität der Kunst
Aesthetic Experiences after Adorno and Derrida
Adorno’s and Derrida’s theories of aesthetics center around art’s claim to sovereignty: art transcends the differentiated construct of modern reason by being a moment simultaneously next to and among others. The newer hermeneutic aesthetics in particular have seen the betrayal of art’s autonomy and its equation with a superior insight into the constitution of reason in the proclamation of aesthetic sovereignty because of that.


In a chain of reasoning in which Derrida’s...
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Adorno’s and Derrida’s theories of aesthetics center around art’s claim to sovereignty: art transcends the differentiated construct of modern reason by being a moment simultaneously next to and among others. The newer hermeneutic aesthetics in particular have seen the betrayal of art’s autonomy and its equation with a superior insight into the constitution of reason in the proclamation of aesthetic sovereignty because of that.


In a chain of reasoning in which Derrida’s deconstruction and Adorno’s aesthetics of negativity criticise and enlighten one another, a concept of aesthetic experience that meets the hermeneutic objection is developed, in which the central idea is that art, through its negativity, poses a threat to our non-aesthetic discourses that cannot be overcome by reason.

1991, 311 pages
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Christoph Menke is professor of Practical Philosophy at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main and a member of the CoE »The Development of Normative Systems«.

Christoph Menke is professor of Practical Philosophy at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main and a member of the CoE »The Development of...


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English world rights (Fordham UP), Spanish world rights (Comares), Chinese simplex rights (East China Normal UP), Chinese complex rights (Linking), Italy (Armando Armando), Korea (Greenbee), Japan (Jimbun Shoin), Hungary (Typotex)

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Reflections of Equality
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