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Subject(s)

• Romanticism—Germany [Browse]
• Aesthetics, German—19th century [Browse]
• Aesthetics, German—20th century [Browse]
• Critical theory [Browse]

Series

Political philosophy and public purpose [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction
• Aesthetic semblance and play as responses to the disfigurement of human social existence in Schiller's Aesthetic education
• Aesthetic experience at the limits of thought in Hölderlin's New letters on aesthetic education
• The endless pursuit of universal sense in Friedrich Schlegel's political and aesthetic thought
• Walter Benjamin's philosophy of critical experience: from the romantic artwork to the disillusioning of mimesis
• Aesthetic truth as the mimesis of false consciousness in Adorno's Aesthetic theory
• Conclusion: the Benjamin-Adorno debate on the nature of aesthetic experience.

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ISBN

• 3319523031 ((hbk.))
• 9783319523033 ((hbk.))

LCCN

2017933901

OCLC

966592708

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