Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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    For Theodor W. Adorno, the relevance of art lies in its capacity to penetrate, through its formal construction, the semblance of a false reality, thereby participating in the self-transcendence of reason. This article argues that, despite the timeliness of this insight, Adorno’s negativism, his conceptualization of reconciliation, and his formalist understanding of art have made it difficult to see how this account can explain art’s relation to social change. Alexander Kluge’s work, it is then a…Read more
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    This thesis aims to reconstruct the work of Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge, who productively integrate some political and aesthetic elements of the critical social theories of Adorno and Habermas to theorize the conditions for a radical social change. I depart from Adorno’s contention that a true historical change requires the construction of what he calls a ‘global’ subject—i.e. a collective of critical and autonomous individuals. Adorno, assuming that capitalism has virtually eliminated autono…Read more