Art as Enlightenment,Witness and Redemption:Adorno's Aesthetic Theory Revisited
The study of Adorno's aesthetic theory is crucial in Adorno studies.Adorno's aesthetic theory not only runs through his academic career,but also has a significant impact on his philosophical research.As a product of Enlightenment reflection,Adorno's aesthetic thought regards art as a new form of Enlightenment and carries the responsibility of revitalizing aesthetics.Through the interpretation of the concepts of artistic rationality,artistic sociality,and through conceptual explanations such as artistic ra-tionality,artistic sociality,and artistic truth content,Adorno endowed art with functions such as reprodu-cing suffering,criticizing society,and recognizing society,while also revealing the roots and secrets of artistic witness.The theoretical and practical significance of Adorno's aesthetic thought lies in the follow-ing:on the one hand,as a cognitive view of aesthetics,Adorno's aesthetic thought realizes a break-through and transcends the modern disciplinary view of aesthetics on the basis of the continuation and de-velopment of Aristotle's theory of the pleasure of tragedy,and marks the gradual transformation of Ador-no's view of art and literature in the post-Auschwitz period;on the other hand,through the emphasis on art's witnessing and reproducing of social suffering,as well as aesthetic empathy,Adorno gave art the heavy responsibility of enlightenment and redemption.In view of Adorno's suspicion of practice,his aes-thetic thought about art as enlightenment,witness and redemption is destined to be only a theoretical as-sumption.
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