 | Aesthetics of Negativity: Blanchot, Adorno, and Autonomy Subjects: Negativity (Philosophy); Autonomy (Philosophy); Aesthetics; Critical theory; Blanchot Maurice; Adorno Theodor W. 1903–1969; Continental philosophy; A rigorous and many-layered study of the works of Blanchot and Adorno in terms of the relation between negativity and autonomy in the work of art with particular reference to literature, which yields a thinking of materiality in language as an ambiguous force of critique and innovation. Allen William S. : William S. Allen is an independent researcher at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Ellipsis: Of Poetry and the Experience of Language after Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Blanchot and has published articles on Benjamin, Roussel, and Béla Tarr. |
