Adorno's Rhinoceros (eBook, PDF)

Art, Nature, Critique
Redaktion: Hofstätter, Antonia; Steuer, Daniel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Throughout his work, the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno repeatedly invokes the rhinoceros. Taking its cue from one of these passages in Aesthetic Theory, 'So a rhinoceros, the mute animal, seems to say: I am a rhinoceros', this book explores the life of this animal in Adorno's texts, and articulates the nuanced interconnections between art, nature and critique in his thought.
By thus illuminating key elements of Adorno's work, this volume reveals the invaluable contributions that this 'classical' thinker can make to our current reflections on the various pressing natural and political crises of our times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350177826
• Artikelnr.: 63205855

Autorenporträt

Antonia Hofstätter is a Teaching Fellow in German studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She completed her PhD in 2017 with a thesis on T. W. Adorno's aesthetics at the University of Brighton, UK. She has contributed to Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2020), The "Aging" of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (2021), and Theodor W. Adorno: Ästhetische Theorie (2021). Daniel Steuer is an independent scholar living in Austria. Between 1989 and 2020, he taught European literature and social and political thought at Bangor University, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Sussex, and the University of Brighton, UK. He has published widely on Wittgenstein and Adorno, among other topics. His latest publication is a co-authored book, War and Algorithm (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Contributors 1. Introduction: The enigma of the rhinoceros
Antonia Hofstätter
( University of Warwick
UK) 2. In the name of the rhinoceros: expression beyond human intention
Camilla Flodin (Uppsala University
Sweden) 3. The rhinoceros at the bottom of the sea: Adorno
Dürer and the silent eloquence of artworks
Antonia Hofstätter (University of Warwick
UK) 4. Just one line: reading T. W. Adorno on humans
artworks and animals
Lydia Goehr (Columbia University
USA) 5. The mute animal
Alexander García Düttmann (Universität der Künste
Berlin
Germany) 6. The speaking animal: on a metaphor of humanity
Sebastian Tränkle (Freie Universität
Germany) 7. The gaze of the rhinoceros and the 'it' of Aesthetic Theory
Daniel Steuer (Independent Scholar
Austria) 8. The muted animal
Daniel Herwitz (University of Michigan
USA) 9. Epilogue: On the actuality of Adorno's rhinoceros - extraction
extinction and dignity
Daniel Steuer (Independent Scholar
Austria) Index