The Fleeting Promise of Art

by Peter Uwe Hohendahl

Book Overview

A discussion of Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory is bound to look significantly different today than it would have looked when the book was first published in 1970, or when it first appeared in English translation in the 1980s. In The Fleeting Promise of Art, Peter Uwe Hohendahl reexamines Aesthetic Theory along with Adorno's other writings on aesthetics in light of the unexpected return of the aesthetic to today's cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801478987
• ISBN13: 9780801478987
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher