Adorno’s Rhinoceros

Art, Nature, Critique

Dr Antonia Hofstätter, Dr Daniel Steuer (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-27317-7 (ISBN)

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Throughout his work, the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno repeatedly invokes the rhinoceros. Taking its cue from one of these passages in Aesthetic Theory, ‘So a rhinoceros, the mute animal, seems to say: I am a rhinoceros’, this book explores the life of this animal in Adorno’s texts, and articulates the nuanced interconnections between art, nature and critique in his thought.
By thus illuminating key elements of Adorno’s work, this volume reveals the invaluable contributions that this ‘classical’ thinker can make to our current reflections on the various pressing natural and political crises of our times.

Antonia Hofstätter is a Teaching Fellow in German studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She completed her PhD in 2017 with a thesis on T. W. Adorno’s aesthetics at the University of Brighton, UK. She has contributed to Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2020), The “Aging” of Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory (2021), and Theodor W. Adorno: Ästhetische Theorie (2021). Daniel Steuer is an independent scholar living in Austria. Between 1989 and 2020, he taught European literature and social and political thought at Bangor University, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Sussex, and the University of Brighton, UK. He has published widely on Wittgenstein and Adorno, among other topics. His latest publication is a co-authored book, War and Algorithm (2019).

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List of Contributors

1. Introduction: The enigma of the rhinoceros, Antonia Hofstätter, (University of Warwick, UK)

2. In the name of the rhinoceros: expression beyond human intention, Camilla Flodin (Uppsala University, Sweden)

3. The rhinoceros at the bottom of the sea: Adorno, Dürer and the silent eloquence of artworks, Antonia Hofstätter (University of Warwick, UK)

4. Just one line: reading T. W. Adorno on humans, artworks and animals, Lydia Goehr (Columbia University, USA)

5. The mute animal, Alexander García Düttmann (Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany)

6. The speaking animal: on a metaphor of humanity, Sebastian Tränkle (Freie Universität, Germany)

7. The gaze of the rhinoceros and the ‘it’ of Aesthetic Theory, Daniel Steuer (Independent Scholar, Austria)

8. The muted animal, Daniel Herwitz (University of Michigan, USA)

9. Epilogue: On the actuality of Adorno’s rhinoceros – extraction, extinction and dignity, Daniel Steuer (Independent Scholar, Austria)

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Erscheinungsdatum	05.09.2023
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-350-27317-1 / 1350273171
ISBN-13	978-1-350-27317-7 / 9781350273177
Zustand	Neuware