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Adorno gives a decisive role to political economy in understanding why art matters as a response to historical disasters like Auschwitz. He uses the notion of ‘non-identity’ to understand how art articulates the particularity that other cultural forms, including philosophy, can obscure. Art depends on ‘mimesis’, rather than on conceptuality, and can connect us to nature in non-repressive ways. Adorno sees the impulse to domination of the objective world as the core of modern subjectivity. By seriously engaging with art, the subject can question its distorted relationships to the world. These may lead to the point where art enacts a refusal to make sense, in order not to conspire with what leads to disaster. Adorno’s interpretations of aesthetic modernism tend to underestimate the value of participation in art as a means of extending communicative possibilities.

Author

Andrew Bowie

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN