Adorno and "A writing of the ruins" : essays on modern aesthetics and Anglo-American literature and culture / James Martin Harding.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harding, James Martin, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American literature.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. En attendant Godot.

Beckett, Samuel.

Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969. Ästhetik (1958/59)--English.

Adorno, Theodor W.

Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.

Aesthetics, Modern.

Postmodernism (Literature).

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

197 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [1997]

Summary:

Arguing that postmodernism has so shifted current critical paradigms that Adorno's work can best be assessed in terms of its relevance in specific localized contexts, this book pursues a course that preserves Adorn's opposition to hegemonic programs but that is also wary of Adorn's own (negative) penchant for totalizing concepts. Unlike recent works which attempt to synthesize Adorn's writing into a comprehensive system that then becomes either the focus of an overriding critique or an object of appropriation, Harding orders his book as a collection of essays whose loose association questions the structural totality of Adorn's thought.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-190) and index.

ISBN:

0791432696

079143270X

OCLC:

34553481