About this title: Most English-language writing on Theodor Adorno has attempted to place him in various contexts and to differentiate him from other thinkers. Such work, while important, marks our failure to appropriate Adorno's ideas imaginatively. In this text, the author proposes such an appropriation through a focus on the centrality of the aesthetic dimension in Adorno. Adorno uses the term "exact imagination" to mark the conjunction of knowledge, subjective experience, and aesthetic form. Exact imagination, as distinct from creative imagination, thus describes a form of nondiscursive rationality. ...
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780262640404ISBN:0262640406
Description: Near Fine. As issued No Jacket. A nice clean copy. "These five interlocked essays, based on material from Adorno's "aesthetic writings, " take up such issues as subjective aesthetic experienc, the historicity of artworks, and our experience of them. " read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780262640404ISBN:0262640406
Description: As New. 8vo 0262640406 as new copies, may have small remainder mark on edge, UNREAD Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 270 p. Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought Topics 20th century; Adorno, Theodor W.; Adorno, Theodor W. (Theodor Wiesengrund); Aesthetics; Aesthetics, Modern; Philosophy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Mit Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780262140621ISBN:0262140624
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Tight binding; Clean, bright, unmarked pages; Minor creases and folds around edges of dustjacket; Minor scuffing on front and back of dustjacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 272 p. Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780262640404ISBN:0262640406
Description: Fine. No dust jacket. paperback with new covers, clean pages, binding tight as new and unread (unsoiled page edge), but with small purple stamp at bottom page edge. Note: Post Office Delivery Confirmation provided by e-mail to enable you to track your package (for US addresses); overseas airmail (generally 2-3 weeks delivery) provided for non-US addresses. Book is shipped in a padded envelope and packaged in bubble wrap. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780262640404ISBN:0262640406
Description: Near fine. Size: 7.6 x 4.8 x 0.6 inches; Remainder mark. Near fine in publisher's slightly rubbed decorated wrappers. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide. read more
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