(In)aesthetic Theory

An Essay on Adorno, Badiou and Aesthetic Modernism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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A reckoning with the radicalisation of modernist aesthetics that took hold in the mid-twentieth century, (In)aesthetic Theory illuminates the limits of aesthetic presentation by bringing Theodor Adorno and Alain Badiou’s divergent philosophies of art into critical proximity.Both theorists uncover moments in which art ceases to represent and begins to insist – where its truth is not stated outright but intimated in a gesture beyond the world as given. Their respective frameworks suggest that aesthetic experience can open an affective breach in which the reifying impulse of cognition is negated, and that which otherwise eludes the regime of established appearances is encountered obliquely. This shared structural insight anchors this book’s central hypothesis: that art’s power to produce truth lies precisely in this zone of interruption, of failure, of withdrawal, and vanishing intensity.Combining original theory with historically grounded comparative commentary, the text reflects on presence and absence, history and memory, politics and art, entropy and decay. With it, Vangelis Giannakakis offers a vitally current interpretation of aesthetic modernism.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-02-19
Mått140 x 218 x 16 mm
Vikt380 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350450653

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How can we consider structural features intrinsic to art without, for that reason, abstracting from their historical embeddedness? Vangelis Giannakakis answers this vital question through the interpretation of aesthetic modernism by Theodor Adorno and Alain Badiou. Very few thinkers can generate a fruitful dialogue among classics without being repetitive, naive, and excessively scholarly. This is an original and erudite book by a first-rate philosopher of art and specialist on Adorno and Badiou.All those interested in contemporary aesthetics will find Giannakakis’s interpretation of events, reality, and aesthetic experience – all central concepts for Adorno and Badiou – a new paradigm to think with in the 21st century. This paradigm is called the (In)aesthetic. A must read.