Nathan Ross

The Philosophy and Politics of Aesthetic Experience

German Romanticism and Critical Theory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book develops a philosophy of aesthetic experience through two socially significant philosophical movements: early German Romanticism and early critical theory. In examining the relationship between these two closely intertwined movements, we see that aesthetic experience is not merely a passive response to art-it is the capacity to cultivate true personal autonomy, and to critique the social and political context of our lives. Art is political for these thinkers, not only when it paints a picture of society, but even more when it makes us aware of our deeply ingrained forms of experience in a transformative way. Ultimately, the book argues that we have to think of art as a form of truth that is not reducible to communicative rationality or scientific knowledge, and from which philosophy and politics can learn valuable lessons.

Produktdetails

• Political Philosophy and Public Purpose
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-84870-9
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 359g
• ISBN-13: 9783319848709
• ISBN-10: 3319848704
• Artikelnr.: 53571621

Autorenporträt

Nathan Ross is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma City University. His first book, On Mechanism in Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy , was published in 2008. He has published essays in  Philosophy Today ,  The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal , and  Epoché, and an edited volume on the aesthetic philosophies of Benjamin and Adorno.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction.- 2. Aesthetic Semblance and Play as Responses to the Disfigurement of Human Social Existence in Schiller's Aesthetic Education.- 3. Aesthetic Experience at the Limits of Thought in Hölderlin's New Letters on Aesthetic Education.- 4. The Endless Pursuit of Universal Sense in Friedrich Schlegel's Political and Aesthetic Thought.- 5. Walter Benjamin's Philosophy of Critical Experience-From the Romantic Artwork to the Disillusioning of Mimesis.- 6. Aesthetic Truth as the Mimesis of False Consciousness in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory.- 7. Conclusion: The Benjamin-Adorno Debate on the Nature of Aesthetic Experience.