Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Comparative Literature Department, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

Aachen, Techn. Hochsch., Diss., 2006

Proefschrift Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. / Auteursnaam op omslag: Marijke Laurense. Met lit. opg.: p. 295-314. - Met reg. - Met samenvatting in het Engels.

Habili.-schr.--Philosophische Fakultät--Universität Bonn. / Bibliogr. p. 305-319. Index.

Th.--Lett.--Paris 1, 1982.

Diss.--Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften an der Philosophischen Fakultät III--Berlin--Humboldt-Universität, 1999. / Bibliogr. p. 159-171. Index.

This thesis starts from the point of departure of asking why Aesthetic Theory is difficult to read. In answering this question it is argued that the difficulty of the work is a function of the unusual claims Adorno makes about the relation between art and philosophy, and that the presentation of these arguments exemplifies these claims. This complimentary relation between form and content has implications for the way Adorno can be understood as engaging the idea of mimesis. Aesthetic Theory should be understood as a theory of mimesis in modern art and as a mimetic work itself. Given this idea, the question of the readability of the work emerges as inseparable from the explicit claims Adorno makes for mimesis. If the work ultimately cannot be understood because Adorno does not define his concepts, or it is unexplainable for any other reason, then mimesis will be shown to be untenable. The issue of the readability of Aesthetic Theory is explored in the Introduction through a discussion of issues arising from the recent history of Adorno's reception. Particular attention is paid to the differences between critics who have emphasised the significance of the particular claims Adorno makes against those who emphasise his method. Chapter I rejects this distinction while it argues that the character of Adorno's writing is uneven, that is to say, Aesthetic Theory cannot usefully be read in a uniform way. Chapter I considers different aspects of this lack of uniformity and argues that the identity of Aesthetic Theory as 'philosophy' is often tenuous as it moves in and out of other modes of argument. Chapters 2 and 3 look at different aspects of the identity of Aesthetic Theory as philosophy. Chapter 2 explains the strategic significance of the work as a continuation of a tradition of philosophy from Hegel onwards. This tradition, it is argued, has explicitly understood the problem of philosophy as recognising itself as experience while it attempts to describe experience. Chapter 3 extends this theme into a consideration of philosophical form. If philosophy is understood as a mode of experience then its form as well as its content is significant. Through a consideration of Heidegger and Derrida, Chapter 3 examines the uniqueness of the philosophical form of Aesthetic Theory. Having made this distinction. Chapter 4 reads Aesthetic Theory as philosophical form, describing aspects of it as mimetic. Chapters 5 and 6 then give detailed readings of parts of Aesthetic Theory which are particularly relevant for an understanding of Adorno's theory of the mimetic potential of modern art. The concluding chapter argues that the internal consistency of Aesthetic Theory in its practice and definition of the crisis of mimesis in modernism has significant implications for the practice of art history and criticism of twentieth-century art.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-10-04Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:07:35Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 silva_fr_me_mar.pdf: 779510 bytes, checksum: ae3ad1e485f800227572981ab227740c (MD5) / Ao longo de seus últimos trinta anos de vida, Theodor Adorno nunca deixou de pensar sobre o problema do tédio. Para ele, lançar os olhos sobre esse fenômeno significa realizar um diagnóstico do estado geral da cultura onde o trabalho, o tempo livre e os objetos culturais se desviam do caminho emancipatório do homem. A perda do teor ético dessas três instâncias acarreta em deformações crônicas sobre os indivíduos, a negar-lhes principalmente um sentido para a própria existência e a capacidade de realizarem experiências (Erfahrungen). Põe-se, assim, a ideia de progresso em xeque. Na medida em que em uma sociedade portadora de todos os elementos necessários para a emancipação humana toma o caminho oposto a esta, ela passa a desumanizar os indivíduos das mais variadas maneiras. Adorno, ao manifestar preocupação com o problema do tédio, aponta para uma mal resolvida dialética do progresso, no sentido da auto-realização humana estar sendo obstruída pelo processo de integração social / Over the last thirty years of his life, Theodor Adorno never stopped thinking about the problem of boredom. For him, to glance over this phenomenon means to perform a diagnosis of the general state of culture, where work, the free time and the cultural objects deviate from man’s emancipatory path. The loss of the ethical content of these three instances leads to chronic deformations on individuals, denying them mainly a meaning for their very existence and the ability of realizing experiences (Erfahrungen). Puts up, therefore, the idea of progress in check. Insofar as in a society that offers all the necessary elements for human emancipation takes the opposite way, it starts to dehumanize individuals in many different ways. Adorno, while manifesting concern about the problem of boredom, points to an unresolved dialectic of progress in the sense of human self-realization being blocked by the process of social integration

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:31:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-12-06Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:01:49Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 neuvald_l_dr_arafcl_parcial.pdf: 69958 bytes, checksum: c0dad6f47afc33045985b8d0203274b9 (MD5) Bitstreams deleted on 2015-06-25T13:01:19Z: neuvald_l_dr_arafcl_parcial.pdf,. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2015-06-25T13:03:32Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000676983_20160101.pdf: 69795 bytes, checksum: 1cbc8861961639c49234d9efe87aaf4e (MD5) Bitstreams deleted on 2016-01-04T10:26:25Z: 000676983_20160101.pdf,. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2016-01-04T10:28:17Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000676983.pdf: 996576 bytes, checksum: 24a7dd9bbfaee1c05630470ebf3cf6ab (MD5) / Esta pesquisa investiga o nível de interferência do conteúdo e da forma da indústria cultural no Curso de Pedagogia da UNICENTRO-Guarapuava/PR, mais especificamente a possibilidade desse fato ter relação com as dificuldades encontradas pelas(os) acadêmicas(os) na disciplina de Didática, durante o processo de planejamento. A pesquisa teve como referencial teórico as ideias do filósofo Theodor W. Adorno sobre a indústria cultural, assim como a produção teórica brasileira que trata da educação na perspectiva da Teoria Crítica Adorniana. A pesquisa de campo consistiu na aplicação de questionários com as(os) acadêmicas(os) do curso de Pedagogia. A análise dos dados revelou a forte presença do conteúdo e da forma da indústria cultural entre o grupo pesquisado. No entanto, estes não são os únicos elementos atingidos pela lógica semiformativa da indústria cultural, uma vez que ela também se estende ao par conceitual razão e sensibilidade. Nessa realidade percebida, a razão afirma seu aspecto instrumental e a sensibilidade não carece de racionalidade e de esforço cognitivo. Entende-se que, ao afetar o juízo estético, a indústria cultural também afeta o processo de conhecimento. Refletindo sobre a existência dessas dicotomias, e no quanto elas se constituem em obstáculos ao processo formativo, é que a educação estética foi enfatizada, tendo-se como pressuposto o referencial teórico adorniano. As ideias de Adorno possibilitam o entendimento de como ocorre a danificação do processo formativo, além de oferecerem parâmetros que definem a essência da formação e contribuem para orientar a resistência à lógica semiformativa da indústria cultural / This research investigates the level of interference of content and form of the cultural industry in the Pedagogy Course at Unicentro, Guarapuava city, Paraná State, more specifically the possibility of this fact be related to difficulties found by the students in the Didactics subject, during the planning process. The research had as theoretical reference the ideas of the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno about cultural industry, as well as the Brazilian theoretical production which discusses about education in the perspective of the Adornian Critical Theory. The field research is comprised by the application of questionnaires to the Pedagogy course students. The data analysis revealed a strong presence of content and form of cultural industry among the surveyed group. Nevertheless, these are not the only elements reached by the semi-formative logic of cultural industry, once it also extends to the conceptual pair reason and sensibility. In this acknowledged reality, the reason asserts its instrumental aspect and sensibility does not require rationality and cognitive effort. It is recognized that when the aesthetic sense is affected, cultural industry also affects knowledge process. Reflecting on the existence of these dichotomies and on how much they constitute an obstacle to the formation process, the aesthetic education was then emphasized, having as assumption the Adornian theoretical reference. Adorno’s ideas enable the understanding on how the formation process damage occurs, apart from offering parameters that define the essence of formation and contribute to guide the resistance to the semi-formative logic of cultural industry