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Brian Friel and Theodor W. Adorno

Essays on Two Modern Dialecticians

Christa Mrowka (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

130 Seiten

2023 | New edition
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-80374-073-7 (ISBN)

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This book discusses how from their different backgrounds and on different levels, the German philosopher, sociologist and musicologist,Theodor W. Adorno, (1903-1969) and the Irish playwright, Brian Friel,(1929-2015) came to the conclusion that the modern crisis rendered art’s affirmative essence, like all positivistic fixations, obsolete. Only a new conception of dialectics, based on the reciprocity of opposites, rather than on antitheses, is capable of healing modern dichotomies. Independent of Adorno’s Negative Dialectics and Critical Theory, Friel is aware that with the processual character of life this requires of the artist in particular an attitude both critical and conciliatory and a persistent readiness to change. Reality is in need of possibility, its dialectic other. Uncertainty, in Friel’s Theatre of Hope and Despair is no longer a defect of our time, but a source of creation in art as well as in life.

Christa Velten-Mrowka, born in Limburg, Germany, taught English language and literature and philosophy at Senior Secondary Schools near Frankfurt a. M. In the 1960s she was a student of Adorno and Max Horkheimer at Frankfurt’s Goethe-University. A long-term member of IASIL she published essays on Brian Friel.

Contents: Brian Friel and Theodor W. Adorno: Two Modern Dialecticians – Metaphysical Experience and the Problem of Tradition – Brian Friel and Theodor W. Adorno: Utopia, Dialectics, and Performances – ‘The Truth About Hedda Gabler’: Ibsen’s Play, Brian Friel’s ‘Version’, and Adorno’s Reflections – Brian Friel and Francis Bacon: Artistic Creation and Faith Healing Viewed in the Light of Negative Dialectics.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.09.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-80374-073-6 / 1803740736
ISBN-13	978-1-80374-073-7 / 9781803740737
Zustand	Neuware