This, the subject line seems hardly to be likely, the text of Adorno's
book offers a most, almost wholly, impenetrable work and most people
did not read it. In fact it is an unfinished work and like all of
Adorno's texts it steers a middle path through a cavernous terrain
that is liable to fall in on his theory at any time. In fact his
theory is attempting to hold up both sides of opposed arguments
simultaneously, in an almost moderate way.
It is much more probable the post-structuralists and the likes of
Derrida and postmodern aesthetic critique killed the subject, than did
Adorno. At least Adorno sought coherence, not incoherence,
contradiction and difference, or the body, as a standard for aesthetic
judgement.
If aesthetics died, it did so under the strains of the problems that
Adorno was addressing, Adorno's problem was, like the post-
structuralists and the others he was opposing, he did not provide
unquestionable solutions to the key problems of aesthetic theory; why
are art works art and some artists better than others, for two examples.
Toodle-pip,
Allan.
On 2 Aug 2008, at 13:45, joseph berg wrote:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1823941,00.html
