The focus of art criticism : art and truth in the Correspondence between Adorno and Benjamin / O foco da critica : arte e verdade na Correspondencia entre Adorno e Benjamin

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2008

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This work intends to deal with the relationship between art and truth as they are discussed in the debates over a materialistic concept of art criticism taken place in the 1930s between Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin. The main effort here is to articulate the original idea of a common project shared by both authors -- whose background is situated in some aspects of Benjamin s early writings -- and its subsequent development by each author as his own distinctive concept of art criticism when they are both confronted with elements of the avant-garde and of the mass culture of the first decades of the 20th century. After pointing out that the divergences discussed on the Correspondence between Adorno and Benjamin rise from different attitudes with regard to the mentioned artistic phenomena, the ensuing questions are presented and discussed in three different moments: 1) the presentation of certain problems of Benjamin s early writings, indispensable to an understanding of the discussions emerging later in the 1930s; 2) the divergences between Adorno and Benjamin concerning the interpretation of Bertolt Brecht s and Franz Kafka s works; 3) their different positions on mass culture so as they are presented in their respective works on film and jazz.

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walter walter theodor w benjamin filosofia contemporanea german philosophy filosofia alemã adorno estetica aesthetics benjamin contemporary philosophy theodor w adorno

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