1st Edition
Benjamin and Adorno on Art and Art Criticism Critique of Art
By Thijs Lijster
Copyright 2017
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book brings together two of the most important figures of twentieth-century criticism, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, to consider a topic that was central to their thinking: the place of and reason for art in society and culture. Thijs Lijster takes us through points of agreement and disagreement between the two on such key topics as the relationship between art and historical... Read more
Introduction, 1. Autonomy and Critique, 2. Ends of Art, 3. Experience, History, and Art, 4. The Art of Critique, Appendix - Notes on a Camp
Biography
Thijs Lijster teaches philosophy of art at the University of Groningen. He contributed to Conceptions of Critique in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy (eds. R. Sonderegger and K. De Boer, Palgrave 2012), Institutional Attitudes. Instituting Art in a Flat World (ed. P. Gielen, Valiz 2013) and The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, 2nd edition (ed. M. Kelly, Oxford University Press 2014). He was awarded with the ABG/VN Essay Prize 2009, the Prize for Young Art Critics 2010 and the NWO/Boekman Dissertation Prize 2015.
