The Sovereignty of Art: Aesthetic Negativity in Adorno and Derrida

by Christoph Menke

Book Overview

In this book Christoph Menke attempts to explain art's sovereign power to subvert reason without falling into an error common to Adorno's negative dialectics and Derrida's deconstruction. Recent discussions of aesthetics, whether in the hermeneutic or the analytic tradition, understand the place of art and aesthetic experience according to a model of "autonomy"--as just one among the many modes of experience that make up the realm of reason, situated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262631954
• ISBN13: 9780262631952
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher