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Is Art Still Possible? Review & Discussion of the Aesthetiktheorie

Adorno & the Problem of Modern Art Is Art Still Possible? Review & Discussion of the Aesthetiktheorie Gyres Feb 16, 2026 3 Share There are many faces to Theodor Adorno: there’s the arcane Hegelian marxist, who writes dialectics so apophatic that a passing eye is never sure if he believes anything other than to deny all alternatives; there’s the apocalyptic social critic, who detests everything about his native Europe & the America in which he took asylum, uncertain whether culture was possible after Auschwitz; there’s the earnest music critic, who loves Beethoven & Mahler & Schoenberg, and loa

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