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Maurice Blanchot and Theodor W. Adorno are among the most difficult but also the most profound thinkers in twentieth-century aesthetics. While their methods and perspectives differ widely, they share a concern with the negativity of the artwork conceived in terms of either its experience and possibility or its critical expression. Such negativity is neither nihilistic nor pessimistic but concerns the status of the artwork and its autonomy in relation to its context or its experience. For both Blanchot and Adorno negativity is the key to understanding the status of the artwork in post-Kantian aesthetics and, although it indicates how art expresses critical possibilities, albeit negatively, it also shows that art bears an irreducible ambiguity such that its meaning can always negate itself. This ambiguity takes on an added material significance when considered in relation to language as the negativity of the work becomes aesthetic in the further sense of being both sensible and experimental, and in doing so the language of the literary work becomes a form of thinking that enables materiality to be thought in its ambiguity.In a series of rich and compelling readings, William S. Allen shows how an original and rigorous mode of thinking arises within Blanchot's early writings and how Adorno's aesthetics depends on a relation between language and materiality that has been widely overlooked. Furthermore, by reconsidering the problem of the autonomous work of art in terms of literature, a central issue in modernist aesthetics is given a greater critical and material relevance as a mode of thinking that is abstract and concrete, rigorous and ambiguous. While examples of this kind of writing can be found in the works of Blanchot and Beckett, the demands that such texts place on readers only confirm the challenges and the possibilities that literary autonomy poses to thought.

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Publié par	Fordham University Press
Date de parution	01 avril 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780823269310
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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W I L L I A M S . A L L E N

Aestetics o Negativity BlancHot, Adorno, and Autonomy

FO R D H A M UN I V E R S I T Y PR E S S New York 2016 ■

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Aen, Wîîam S., – Aestetîcs o negatîvîty : Bancot, Adorno, and autonomy / Wîîam S. Aen. — Fîrst edîtîon. pages cm. — (Perspectîves în Contînenta pîosopy) ïncudes bîbîograpîca reerences and îndex. ïSBN ---- (cot : ak. paper) . Negatîvîty (Pîosopy) . Autonomy (Pîosopy) . Aestetîcs. . Crîtîca teory. . Bancot, Maurîce. . Adorno, heodor W., –. . Contînenta pîosopy. ï. Tîte. B..A  —dc 

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Contents

List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments

Introduction: Abstract and Concrete Modernity he anguage o te Everyday, 14

PA RTC I : O N T R E-TE M P S Autonomous Literature: he Maniesto and te Novel he Formatîve Drîve ater Kant, 37 Benjamîn’s ■ Hîstorîca Crîtîque o te Nove, 45 Hege and te ■ Ambîvaence o Prose, 53 he Obscurities o Artistic Innovation Bancot on te New Musîc, 68 Adorno’s Notîon o ■ Aestetîc Materîa, 74

PA RT I I : NE G AT I V E SPA C E S Dead Transcendence: Blancot, Paulan, Kaka Transdescendence o te Wrîter, 99 Negatîng ■ Transcendence, 108

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An Image o hougt inhomas l’Obscurhe ïdea o îterature as Force o Repusîon, 122 Recapîtuatîon: ■ Bataîe and Kossowskî, 127 Indiferent Reading inAminadabMaarmé and te Space o Wrîtîng, 139 Materîa Vîsîon, ■ ïmagînary Space, 145

PA RT I I I : MAT E R I A L AM B I G U I T Y

he LanguageLike Quality o te Artwork Mîmetîc ïdentîty and te Dîaectîcs o Sembance, 165 he Form ■ o înguîstîcaîty în anguage, 178

he Possibility o Speculative Writing Hege, Bancot, and te Work o Wrîtîng, 199 Serîa Hîatus ■ Form în Höderîn, 209 înguîstîc Works o Art, 214 ■

PA RTG I V : R E Y LI T E R AT U R E Eco Location: Beckett’sComment c’esthe Negativity o hinking troug Language

Appendix:THomas l’Obscur,Capter 1

Notes BibliograpHy Index

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Maurîce Bancot,Amînadab(Parîs: Gaîmard, ); tr. Jef Fort asAmînadab(încon: Unîversîty o Nebraska Press, ). Bancot,L’amîtîé(Parîs: Gaîmard, ); tr. Eîzabet Rottenberg asFrîendsîp(Stanord: Stanord Unîversîty Press, ). heodor W. Adorno,Ästetîsce heorîe, ed. Grete Adorno and Ro Tîedemann,Gesammete Scrîten, vo.  (Frankurt am Maîn: Surkamp, ); tr. Robert Huot-Kentor asAestetîc heory(Mînneapoîs: Unîversîty o Mînnesota Press, ). Kar Marx,Capîta: A Crîtîque o Poîtîca Economy, vo. , tr. Ben Fowkes (Harmondswort: Penguîn, ). Adorno and Water Benjamîn,he Compete Correspondence 1928–1940, ed. Henrî onîtz, tr. Nîcoas Waker (Cambrîdge: Poîty, ). Marx and Frîedrîc Enges,he Communîst Manîesto, ed. Davîd Mcean, tr. Samue Moore (Oxord: Oxord Unîversîty Press, ).

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