{"product_id":"adornos-aesthetic-theory-at-fifty","title":"Adorno's Aesthetic Theory at Fifty","description":"It has been fifty years since Theodor Adorno's \u003ci\u003eAesthetic Theory\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1970, a year after his death. The work appeared at a historical moment when political tension on the left was at its height and the movements of pop art and postmodernism began eclipsing the modernist aesthetic values Adorno cherished. \u003ci\u003eAesthetic Theory\u003c\/i\u003e was met with initial resistance, in part because its aesthetic criteria appeared antiquated. This issue reckons with the dialectical complexity of this often misunderstood and misinterpreted work. Essay topics include the metaphysics of landscapes, the potential of film as a medium for social critique, Adorno's conception of the spiritual in art, and a nuanced reading of his polemic against Oswald Spengler's \u003ci\u003eDecline of the West\u003c\/i\u003e. Bringing together philosophers, art historians, musicologists, and literary theorists, this issue shows that \u003ci\u003eAesthetic Theory\u003c\/i\u003e still has lessons that extend beyond disciplinary bounds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contributors. J. M. Bernstein, Hent de Vries, Peter E. Gordon, Eva Geulen, Martin Jay, Sherry Lee, Max Pensky, with two additional essays on Adorno by Mikko Immanen and Ricardo Samaniego de la Fuente","brand":"Peter E. Gordon, special issue editor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43572817494198,"sku":"9781478017592","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781478017592_72981ea4-48b7-4f98-a022-be60f085cb0c.jpg?v=1725888980","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/adornos-aesthetic-theory-at-fifty","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}