The Dialectics of Realist Imagination: Adorno's Aesthetics and Contemporary Japanese Fiction

[...]it is imperative to carry on the endeavor in order to give an "objective figure" to the affliction of victims. If we keep this commitment in mind, we will appreciate that a common perception of Adorno as a pessimistic intellectual, who has given up hope for the future of meaningful cu...

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Published in:Journal of comparative literature & aesthetics 2022-06, Vol.45 (2), p.85-96
Main Author: Nishi, Kinya
Format: Article
Language:English
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Adorno, Theodor W
Aesthetics
Book publishing
Dialectic
Dialectics
Evaluation
Holocaust
Japanese fiction
Japanese language
Metaphysics
Philosophers
Philosophy
Rationality
Realism (Literature)
Realism in literature
Social aspects
Works
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Summary:[...]it is imperative to carry on the endeavor in order to give an "objective figure" to the affliction of victims. If we keep this commitment in mind, we will appreciate that a common perception of Adorno as a pessimistic intellectual, who has given up hope for the future of meaningful cultural production, is profoundly misleading. [...]the fact that such a perception is so widespread implies that certain "positive" aspects of Adorno's careful balancing act have been undervalued. [...]the struggle to achieve genuine expressions for the predicament in one of the most tumultuous centuries in history would require a defiantly positive quality of thinking that can match the negative. [...]various readings of Aesthetic Theory along a sort of anti-universalist line have elaborated rather romantic interpretations of artworks as a means to disrupt any belief in progress and universalism, or any position seemingly based on "identity thinking."
ISSN:0252-8169