The Fleeting Promise of Art: Adorno''s Aesthetic Theory Revisited
ISBN: 9780801469282
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Adorno Theodor W. 1903–1969 -- Aesthetics; Aesthetics German -- 20th century;

Peter Uwe Hohendahl reexamines Adorno's writings on aesthetics in light of the unexpected return of the aesthetic to today's cultural debates.


Peter Uwe Hohendahl is Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. He is the author of many books, including Reappraisals: Shifting Alignments in Postwar Critical Theory.

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