Adorno's Poetics of Form

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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A critical study of the concept of form in Adorno's writings on art and literature.Adorno's Poetics of Form is the first book-length examination of the elusive deployment of the concept of form in Adorno's writings on art and literature, and the first monograph to offer a comprehensive account of the relation of these writings to his broader philosophical project. It examines form within the constellation of concepts that exist around it, considering how it appears when seen in conjunction with and in opposition to content, expression, genre, and material. Illuminated from these angles, form is revealed as the site of a complex web of dynamic conceptual interactions. The book thus offers a resolution to a problem in Adorno's work that has remained unsolved for several decades, and in doing so sets out the consequences of Adorno's poetics for literary and critical theory today.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-01-02
Mått152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt399 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Antal sidor288
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438469843

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Abbreviations of Works by AdornoAcknowledgmentsIntroductionFormAdornoPoeticsPhilologyConstellation1. Form and ContentAdorno and Heidegger: The Form of the Thing‘Parataxis’Parataxis and Linguistic FormForm as Sedimented ContentParataxis in Adorno’s reading of ‘Der Einzige’Consequences for Form and Content2. Form and ExpressionThe Mediation of Form and ExpressionLiterary and Musical ExpressionismExpressionism and SurrealismKafkaMimesisConsequences for the Theory of Form3. Form and GenreThe Fraying of BordersThe Genesis of the FormsUniversal and ParticularNominalism and its DiscontentsBourgeois Art and the Culture IndustryThe Novel as FormTheory of the Essay4. Form and MaterialMaterial and ContentTechnique and the Mastery of MaterialLanguage and PoetryThe Literary Manifestation of Form and MaterialConsequences for the Theory of Form5. Artistic Form and the Commodity FormSocial and Abstract LaborAbstraction and ExchangeMediation and FormPurposiveness, Communication, LanguagePoetry and ReconciliationArt Beauty and Natural BeautyPriority of the ObjectCodaLyricEngaging FormBeyond the New FormalismConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex

"Adorno's Poetics of Form is at once a kind of casebook (Robinson has read a lot of Adorno so you don't have to) and a critical work (Robinson has drawn out implicit Adornoian concerns and drawn together a constellation of formal concerns). Taken together, this simply means that Adorno's Poetics of Form invites (and deserves) the same kind of attention it gives to its collection of texts." — Mediations"In Adorno's Poetics of Form, Josh Robinson carries out a necessary and fruitful investigation into the way we think about art, and the potential embedded in particular works … Robinson has produced a highly readable and accomplished contribution to the scholarship on Theodor Adorno's aesthetic project as it pertains to the question of form, and a thought-provoking reformation of the Marxist theory of art." — Phenomenological Reviews