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Eva Geulen: Expression and Suffering; Semblance and Mimesis (Notes on an Enigmatic Passage in Adorno’s  Aesthetic Theory)
Expression and Suffering; Semblance and Mimesis (Notes on an Enigmatic Passage in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory)
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Eva Geulen

Expression and Suffering; Semblance and Mimesis (Notes on an Enigmatic Passage in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory)

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  • Ästhetik
  • Kritik
  • Philosophie

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Eva Geulen

seit 2012 Professorin für Neuere Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. Aktuelle Forschungsschwerpunkte: Erziehungsdiskurse 1800 und 1900; Goethes Morphologie und ihre Rezeption im 20. Jahrhundert.

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Sami Khatib (Hg.), Holger Kuhn (Hg.), ...: Critique: The Stakes of Form

Critique is a form of thinking and acting. It is determined by its objects, yet never accesses them immediately but is always mediated through its own forms of (re)presentation. Since the end of the 18th century, there has been a dynamization and fluidization of the understanding of form, as topoi such as the break, the marginalization, the tearing and opening indicate. However, these multifarious attempts to “build on the structure through demolition” (Benjamin) testify to the dependence of all articulation on the forms of (re)presentation [“Darstellung”]. As a philosophical problem, the question of form arises in critical theory from Marx to Adorno. Since the 1960s, literary practices have proliferated which generate their critical statements less argumentatively than through the programmatic use of formal means. At the same time, the writing self, along with its attitudes, reflections, affects and instruments, visibly enters the critical scene—whereas the theatrical scene as a stage of critique has been contested intensively during the 20th century. This volume examines how the interdependence of critique, object, and form translates into critical stances, understood as learnable, reproducible gestures, which bear witness to changing conditions and media of critical practice.

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