Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic
by Theodor Adorno
University of Minnesota Press, 1989
Cloth: 978-0-8166-1186-7 | Paper: 978-0-8166-1187-4
Library of Congress Classification B3199.A33K5413 1989
Dewey Decimal Classification 111.850924
TOC
- Contents
- Translator's Acknowledgments
- Foreword: Critique of the Organic
- Hullot-Kentor, Robert
- 1.
- Exposition of the Aesthetic
- Poetry and Dialectical Concept
- The Claim to Poetry
- Poetry as Illustration
- Aestheticism
- Masks and Methods
- Equivocations
- Classicist Material Aesthetics
- Formalism
- 2.
- Constitution of Inwardness
- “Scripture”
- Objectless Inwardness
- Immanent Dialectic
- Philosophy of History
- “Situation”
- Intérieur
- 3.
- Explication of Inwardness
- Sociology
- The Spiritual Body
- Mythical Content
- Dialectical Conjuration
- Melancholy
- Baroque
- Paradoxies of the Aesthetic
- 4.
- Concept of Existence
- Existence and Truth
- Paradoxy and Ambiguity
- The Abstract Self
- Existence Mythical
- Objective Despair
- Reversal of the Existential Dialectic
- 5.
- On the Logic of the Spheres
- Existence and System
- Origin of the Spheres
- “Constellation”
- Overlapping of Idealist and Ontological Elements
- Humor, Accident, and “Motivation”
- Confinen and “Leap”
- Dialectic of the Spheres
- Intermittence
- Projection
- Trancendences
- 6.
- Reason and Sacrifice
- Self-Destruction of Idealism
- Mythical Sacrifice
- “Gnosis”
- Paradox Sacrifice of Mere Spirit
- Passio
- 7.
- Construction of the Aesthetic
- Crisis of Melancholy
- Passing Away of Existence
- Images and Spheres
- Subjective “How” and Enmity toward Art
- Fantasy in the Fragment
- Transcendence of Longing
- Notes
- Index
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