| Volltext: | Index Adorno, Theodor W. and aesthetic critique of reason, xiii and aesthetic evaluation, 128, 129, 132-137, 140 beauty, 128, 141, 146, 149 and aesthetic experience, 21-22, 27, 29, 249-250 on dialectic of reason, 213-214 and nonaesthetic discourses, 251 and romantic inflation, 251 and teleological model, 216 on aesthetic image, 149 and aesthetic literalness, 17-19, 21- 22,27 on aesthetic modernity, 178 and aesthetic negativity, x-xii, 3, 4 and aesthetic pleasure, 8-16 and aesthetic spirit, 26 and hermeneutics, 23-24 as heteronomous, 6 and Kantian positions, 6-7 and processuality, 65 and purist misconception, 4-6, 25-26 and social-critical misconception, 4— 6, 7-11, 25-26 on aesthetic-nonaesthetic meaning, 95 and aesthetic spirit, 19, 21, 24 Aesthetic Theory, vii, 4, 72-75 (see also Aesthetic Theory) on aesthetic understanding, 94 on antinomy of the aesthetic, vii, viii, x-xii and art as problem-solving, 250 on automatic repetition, 29 and autonomy, 4, 6 and the conceptual, 29-30 and corrective process in opposed positions, 151 on crisis experience, 218-222 death, 218-220, 222, 223, 224, 227 vs. culture industry, 9, 10-11 and deferral of understanding or grounding, 215 The Dialectic of Enlightenment, 29, 96 on disintegration, 234-235 Habermas on, 247-248, 249 and Heidegger on art, 147 on "identificatory" experience or understanding, 29, 30 on incomprehensible aesthetic object, 151-155 and institutionally restricted art, 177 and instrumental reason, 244 and interpretive speech, 109-110, 112, 113, 118, 126 and configurative interlinkage, 111 and Kafka, 114 and Prometheus, 116 and Marquard's model, 173 on metaphysics, 209, 210, 217-218, 220 on mimesis vs. meaning, 88, 89, 90, 96, 97, 104, 105 on modernity, 218 Negative Dialectics, 208-209, 216, 217, 238-239 (see also Negative Dialectics) and negative dialectics of reason, 209- 214, 215-217 and nonaesthetic cognition of negativity, 241-242 Notes to Literature, 114 300 Index Adorno, Theodor W. (cont.) and philosophical discourse of modernity, 242 Philosophy of Modern Music, 133, 134 and polysemy, 62 and postaesthetic approach, 181-182 and "prismatic" uses, 117 and romantic tradition in poetry, 114 and sovereignty, 168, 169-170, 176- 177, 178-179, 181, 251 stereoscopic reading of, 6, 11, 25, 161 on whole and part, 74-75, 76-79, 81 Aesthetic. See also Aesthetics; Art antinomy of, vii-xi danger of, 223-239 genealogical function of, 243 modern differentiation of, 252 negativities as impact of, 239 Aesthetically incomprehensible object, 150-155 Aesthetic ambiguity. See Polysemy theory Aesthetic attitude or stance Kierkegaard on, 230-231 shift to, 228-230, 231-233 ubiquity of, 233 Aesthetic autonomy. See Autonomy Aesthetic critique of reason, xii, xiii, 250 Aesthetic deferral. See Deferral Aesthetic deviation, 33 Aesthetic difference, 3 and Adorno's misconceptions, 4 and aesthetic experience, 14 and aesthetic pleasure, 7-8 processuality of, 6 Aesthetic evaluation, 128. See also Aesthetic value; Beauty and the beautiful Adorno on, 128, 129, 132-137, 140 higher form of critique, 137, 140 immanent critique, 137-139, 140, 141, 211-212, 218 and interpretation, 131, 138, 143-144, 144-145 Aesthetic experience, 14, 16, 25, 47 and Adorno, 21-22, 27, 29, 249-250 on dialectic of reason, 213-214 and nonaesthetic discourse, 251 and romantic inflation, 251 and teleological model, 216 and aesthetic difference, 14 and aesthetic literalness, 21-22 and aesthetic negativity, x-xi, 15, 24- 25, 26, 27, 29, 72, 131, 166-167 and aesthetic pleasure, 15-16, 29 and aesthetic spirit, 16, 23, 24 and aesthetic understanding, 104-105 and appearance of the incomprehensible, 155 and articulating reading, 48 and authors of modern aesthetics, 242-243 autonomy of, 173 and Beardsley on aesthetic value, 129- 130 criteria for magnitude of, 130-131 and Derrida, 164 discourse-subverting logic of, 163 and disruption of understanding, 58, 59 duality of (Adorno), vii external limitation of, 174-177, 179 as failure of automatic understanding, 69 and grounding of nonaesthetic, 225- 226 in Habermas's critique, 248 and hermeneutic aesthetics, 71, 101 vs. aesthetics of negativity, 73 immanent definition of, 179 and interpretations of text strategies, 126 and interpretive speech, 107-109, 111, 122, 126-127, 145 as kaleidoscope, 117 and literalness, 16-18 Lukács on, 139 materials of, 229 as mimetic, 98 multideterminacy in, 65 of negativity, 168, 223, 224-225, 225- 226, 227-228, 229, 230, 231-232, 235-237, 239, 241-242, 250 and nonaesthetic cognition, 239 and nonaesthetic discourses or practices, 168, 239, 251 and nonaesthetic representations, 231-232 and polysemy theory, 63-64 processuality of, 46, 65 negative, 110, 113, 155 processual logic of, 232-233 and purist misconception, 14-15 and reason, vii-viii recognition of, 253-254 301 Index and romantic vs. modern aesthetics, 249-250 as servile, 170, 177 and signs, 157 sovereign enactment of, 164, 165, 168, 169, 170 sovereignty of, 170-171, 181, 232, 242, 252-253 as stabilizing or destabilizing, 172 stringency of, 131-132, 134, 135-136, 137, 138-139, 140, 143, 225 subversive potential of, 178 as successful understanding, 102-103 and understanding, 71-72, 78, 102- 103, 227, 253 Aesthetic feeling, 153 Aesthetic form, 90 Asthetic identification, 58-59 Aesthetic image, 143-157 Adorno on, 149-150, 154 Aestheticism, Adorno's critique of, 5 Aesthetic judgment. See also Aesthetic evaluation and beauty, 141 and direct normative experience, 142- 143 post-facto quality of, 128-143 Aesthetic literalness, 16-19, 21-22, 27 Aesthetic meaning, 60-61, 90-91, 95 and aesthetic sensuality, 97 as meaningful linkage, 48-49 and polysemy, 66 self-subversion of, 126 Aesthetic negation of automatic identification of aesthetic signifiers, 61 of understanding, 85, 156 Aesthetic negativity, x-xii, 3, 71 and Adorno, x-xii, 3, 4 and aesthetic pleasure, 8-16 and aesthetic spirit, 26 vs. culture industry, 11 and hermeneutics, 23-24 as heteronomous, 6 and Kantian positions, 6-7 and processuality, 65 and purist misconception, 4-6, 25-26 and social-critical misconception, 4- 6, 7-11, 25-26 and aesthetic experience, x-xi, 15, 24- 25, 26, 29, 72, 131, 166-167 and aesthetic pleasure, 12-14, 15, 29 and aesthetic spirit, 18, 22 and autonomy, 3, 5, 6-7, 15, 25, 161, 162, 254 and beauty, 140, 146, 157, 161-162 and crisis experience, 223 and deconstructive theory, 162-169, 177-179, 203 and Derrida, 177-79, 181-182, 203, 250 as destabilizing, 171 and hermeneutics, 23, 72, 103 hermeneutic critique, 84-87 and interpretive statements, 110 and mimesis vs. meaning, 87-105 and understanding-aesthetic experience equation, 136 and whole vs. part, 74-87 and incomprehensibility of object, 153-154 and interpretive speech, 126-127 and nonaesthetic cognition of negativity, 241 and nonaesthetic discourses or practices, 167-168, 251 nonaesthetic validity in, 226 and normal vs. revolutionary discourse, 183 and polysemy theory, 61, 62, 64, 67-68 purist misconception of, 4-6, 13, 14- 15, 25-26 and rational discourse, 238 and reification, 156 and Rorty's model of deconstruction, 184-185 self-subversive logic of, 203 and semiotics, 33 and signifier formation, 71 social-critical misconception of, xii, 4- 6, 7-11, 14, 25-26 sovereign enactment of, 164, 167, 176- 177, 181, 254 and understanding, 146, 156 Aesthetic pleasure. See Pleasure, aesthetic Aesthetic probability, 56-57 Aesthetic process. See Processuality Aesthetic reification, 46, 156 Aesthetic relief, 170, 171-173, 177 and institutional constraints on aesthetic experience, 174-177 Aesthetic repetition, 55 Aesthetics. See also Aesthetic philosophical, viii, 164 as servile, 179 302 Index Aesthetic semblance, 216 antinomy of, vii Aesthetic sign, 33, 93-94. See also Sign Aesthetic signifier formation. See Signifier formation Aesthetic sovereignty. See Sovereignty, aesthetic Aesthetic spirit, 16, 18-21, 23-24 Adorno's concept of, 19-20, 21, 22, 23, 26 and aesthetic negativity, 18, 22, 26 and hermeneutics, 21-24 Aesthetic strategies, 114, 121, 124, 144- 145 Aesthetic Theory (Adorno), vii, 4, 72- 75 and aesthetic experience of incomprehensible, 149-150, 151 and aesthetic negativity, 5, 6 and aesthetic pleasure, 10 conceptual pairs of, 73-74, 109, 110 on enigmatic character of art, 169 on evaluation, 132 and mimesis vs. meaning, 87, 89, 96 Aesthetic transfiguration, 156, 228-230, 231-233, 238 Aesthetic understanding, 93-94. See also Understanding and aesthetic experience, 104-5 and aesthetic negativity, 33, 238 and aesthetic vs. nonaesthetic sig-nifiers, 44 and contextual assumptions, 60, 61 deferral of, 55, 71 and disruption of understanding, 53 and distinction between different forms of art, 38 duration of, 32 fundamental act of, 43 and hermeneutics, 21-22, 100, 101 and hermeneutics vs. aesthetics of negativity, 72, 82-84 identification in, 31 Kant on, 99 object of, 33-34, 36, 37 and polysemy theory, 63-64, 66, 68 and processual identification of aesthetic signifers, 49 processuality of, 49, 86 and signifier formation, 27 and whole vs. part, 80, 82 Aesthetic vacillation, 36-37, 44-45, 46, 69, 79, 85, 104 Aesthetic value, 128-130. See also Aesthetic evaluation; Beauty and the beautiful Allographic art, 39-45, 49 Ambiguity, aesthetic. See Polysemy theory Antinomy of the aesthetic, vii-xi Apel, Karl-Otto, 200, 201, 202 Appearance, art works as, 152, 154 Aristotle and aesthetic pleasure, 7 and aesthetics of probability, 57 Art (works). See also at Aesthetic Adorno on, 151-152 articulating reading of, 47-48 as enigmatic, 96, 169 as estranged, 59 forgeable ("autographic") and non-forgeable ("allographic"), 39-45, 49 Heidegger on, 147-149 language of, 100 meaning of, 83 music, 39-40, 97, 132, 134-135 "one-stage" vs. "two-stage" 38 poetry, 101, 114 processual negativity of, 164 and reason, xi, xiii (See also Reason) as release from society, 171-177 romantic vs. modern conception of, 249-250 seriousness of, 170 servile (Derrida), 164, 170 Sontag on erotics of, 15 sovereignty of, xiii, 165, 166 (See also Sovereignty, aesthetic) success of, 128 Artaud, Antonin, xii Articulating reading, 43, 47-48 Austin, J. L., 192-194 Automatic identification, 59 Automatic repetition, 11, 29, 31-32 Automatic understanding, 31, 32, 33, 36, 98 aesthetic experience as failure of, 69 and aesthetic experience of negativity, 232, 236 and aesthetic understanding, 100 vs. contextual assumptions, 60 and disruption of understanding, 53, 54 duration of, 32 and mimetic reenactment, 104-105 negation of, 65, 67 зов Index Automatic understanding and polysemy theory, 63-64, 68, 69 processual negation of, 161-162, 162- 163, 165 of signs, 234 subversion of, 167, 227 Autonomy and achievements of art, 3-4 and Adorno, 4, 6 of aesthetic experience, 173 and aesthetic negativity, 3, 5, 6-7, 15, 25, 161, 162, 254 and aesthetic pleasure, 7, 8, 12-13 and aesthetic spirit, 20 and antinomy of the aesthetic, vii-xi and negativity, xi and recognition of the aesthetic, 254 Avant-garde, xii-xiii, 175, 176 and post-avant-garde, ix Barthes, Roland, 36, 62 Bataille, George, xii, 164, 181, 197, 242 Beardsley, Monroe, C., 75-77, 78, 128, 129-130 Beauty and the beautiful, viii, 128-129, 140-141, 146. See also Aesthetic evaluation; Aesthetic value Adorno on, 128, 141, 146, 149 and aesthetically good, 141-142 and aesthetic negativity, 140, 146, 157, 161-162 as appearance, 152 direct normative experience of, 141, 142, 145, 146, 151, 161 and incomprehensibility of aesthetic object, 150-155 Kant on, 128, 170 natural, 141 pleasure involved in, 10 and understanding, 146-147, 149, 150, 161 Benjamin, Walter, 17 Bergson, Henri, 30-32, 33, 36, 46 Blanchot, Maurice, 112, 155 Blindness of aesthetic interpretations, 111, 113, 114, 115, 118, 120, 144, 145 Blumenberg, Hans, 116-117, 118-119, 120, 122, 123 Boehm, Gottfried, 103 Bohrer, Karl Heinz, 153 Brahms, Johannes, 132 Bubner, Rüdiger, 6, 101, 242 Cage, John, 231 Compensation model, 171-173 and institutional constraints on aesthetic experience, 174-177 Conceptual representation, 29-30 Configurative discontinuity, 111, 112, 118, 125, 126-127, 145 first type of, 113, 121, 126, 144, 145 second type of, 113, 121, 123, 124, 126, 144 Configurative interlinkage, 110, 111 Configurative logic of interpretation, 107-127 Context, and Derrida on language, 187-190 Contextual assumptions of aesthetic understanding, 60, 61 vs. automatic understanding, 60 and disruptions of understanding, 53- 55 distancing from, 59 in identification of aesthetic signifers, 58-59 "Copernican turn" 209 Crisis of meaning, 187, 188, 189, 190 of reason, 216-217 Crisis experience, 218-222, 224 and Adorno on death experience, 218-220, 222, 223, 224, 227 and aesthetic negativity, 254 and genealogical grounding of negative dialectic, 220, 226 Critical negativity, and aesthetic negativity, 4 Culler, Jonathan, 187-188 Culture industry, Adorno's critique of, 9, 10-11 Danger of the aesthetic, 223-239 Death Adorno on experience of, 218-220, 222, 223, 224, 227 as disintegration not problem, 235 De-automatization, 32-33, 33 aesthetic transformation as, 54 and compensating for disruptions, 54 De-automatizing repetition, 55 Deconstructive logic, of mimetic reen-actment, 104 Deconstructive theories, xi-xiii of Derrida (See also Derrida, Jacques) and aesthetic genealogy, 238 304 Index Deconstructive theories (cont.) and aesthetic negativity, 162-169, 177-179, 203 and Austin's pragmatics of language, 192-194 and deferral of aesthetic understanding, 71 and différance, 195-196, 199, 201, 208 and foundations grounding, 197- 204, 205, 206, 207-208, 210 and genealogical justification of negative dialectic, 224 and iterability of signs, 186-192, 194— 195 and negative dialectic of reason, 205- 214, 223 and negativity, 65 and nonaesthetic cognition of negativity, 241 and sovereignty, 177-179 of the text, 162-169, 181, 250 negativity of, 239 and polysemy, 65, 67-68 Rorty on, 182-186, 215 Deferral of aesthetic understanding, 55, 71 of enactment of aesthetically internal signifier formation, 103 in signifier formation, 52, 60 of understanding, 69, 79, 215 Definite notation, 39 Deictic expressions, 60, 124 de Man, Paul, 113, 116 Derrida, Jacques and aesthetic experience of negativity, 225 and aesthetic genealogy, 238 on aesthetic modernity, 178 and aesthetic negativity, 177-179, 181— 182, 203, 250 on aesthetic object, 69 and Austin's pragmatics of language, 192-194 and blindness of aesthetic interpretations, 112-113 and deconstructivist theory, xi, xii, 185-186 ( See also Deconstructive theories) and deferral of aesthetic understanding, 71 and deferral of understanding or grounding, 215 and différence, 195-196, 199, 201, 208 and discontinuity, 125-126 and foundations grounding, 197-204, 205, 206, 207-208, 210 and genealogical grounding, 214 and genealogical justification of negative dialectic, 224 and iterability of signs, 186-192, 194- 195 and metaphysics, 164, 165, 208, 211 and negative dialectic of reason, 205- 214, 223 and negativity, 65 and nonaesthetic cognition of negativity, 241 and nonaesthetic validity of aesthetic negativity, 250 on polysemy theory, 65-66 Rorty on, 182, 183 and servile vs. sovereign art, 170 and sovereignty, 164, 165-166, 177— 179, 181, 225 textual reading concept of, 181 and theory of the text, 162-169, 250 Descartes, René, 234 Determinate negation, 24-25, 29, 65, 224, 235, 258n.40 Dialectic of Enlightenment, The (Horkheimer and Adorno), 29, 96 Dialectic of reason, negative, 205-214, 215-217, 223, 238, 239 Différence, 195-196, 199, 201, 208 Direct normative experience, 141-143, 145, 146, 151, 161 Discontinuity. See also Configurative di-continuity and aesthetic experience, 126-127 and interpretation, 110-111, 114, 120- 121, 122, 125-126, 127 and hermeneutics vs. aesthetic negativity, 110 Disintegration Adorno on experiences of, 221-222 Adorno on logic of, 226 vs. critical negation, 277n.3 exclusion of, 234-235 of language (Adorno), 217 total, 234, 277n.3 Dissonance, 77, 78, 262n.9 Dogmatism, 237 Duchamp, Marcel, 228 Earth, and Heidegger on art, 147-149, 155-156 305 Index Enjoyment, aesthetic. See Pleasure, aesthetic Enlightenment, and Habermas analysis, 244 Entertainment (culture) industry, Adorno's critique of, 9, 10-11 Epiphanies, and art works, 151-152 Essay, aesthetic, 117-118 Evaluation. See Aesthetic evaluation Fantastic, aesthetics of, 57 Feeling, aesthetic, 153 Fictional language, 56-58 Fireworks, and Adorno on aesthetic object, 152 Form, aesthetic, 90 Formalism, and hermeneutic aesthetics, 82 Foundations grounding critique of, 202 and Derrida, 197-204, 205, 206, 207- 208, 210 dilemma of, 201 Wittgenstein's rejection of, 234 Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 21, 82, 83, 91, 94, 98, 100 Gehlen, Arnold, 171-177 Genealogical function, of the aesthetic, 243 Genealogical grounding or justification of claims of traditional metaphysics, 221 of metaphysical need, 220 of necessity of raising infinite claims, 225 of negative dialectic, 212, 213, 214, 216, 220, 223, 224, 226, 242, 243 of nonaesthetic cognition of negativity, 226 Gestalt theory, 75, 82 Goodman, Nelson, 38-45, 47, 49, 69 Grammatological analysis, 197 Greek temple, 147 Habermas, Jürgen, 242-250, 251-252 Hegel, G. W. F. absolute of, 217 and Adorno on immanent critique, 212 on determinate negation, 25 and naturally beautiful, 141 and Rorty on deconstruction, 183-184 and sovereignty of art, 165 Heidegger, Martin, 33, 46, 71, 82, 100, 147-149, 155-156 Hermeneutics, xii, 17-18, 19, 21-24, 26-27 and aesthetic evaluation, 137 and aesthetic experience, 71 aesthetics encompassed in (Gadamer), 91 and aesthetics of negativity, 72 and interpretive statements, 110 and mimesis vs. meaning, 87-105 and signifier formation, 103 and understanding equated with aesthetic experience, 136 and whole vs. part, 74-87 central aesthetic thesis of, 102 hermeneutic circle, 80-82, 83, 86 vs. incomprehensibility of aesthetic object, 150 latent heteronomy of, 101-102, 103, 104, 161 and recognition of aesthetic experience, 253 Sontag on, 15 structural heteronomy of, 100, 264- 265n.49 and understanding of meaning, 71-72 Hermeneutic teleology, 66 Hindemith, Paul, 134 Historical-philosophical approach and Adorno on progress, 136-137 of Derrida, 208, 215 and whole vs. elements, 77, 78 Historical signs, 91 Historical understanding, 83 Horkheimer, Max, 29, 96, 244 Husserl, Edmund, 192, 196, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 210 Iconographie conclusions, 107 Idealist aesthetics, 141 Ideality and Idea, 199 and Adorno, 209, 210 and Derrida, 204, 205, 206, 209 Husserlian, 199, 202 Kantian, 199-201, 202, 204, 205, 206, 209,210 of reason, 2Ó3, 204, 205 of truth, 205 Identification, 11, 29, 31 aesthetic, 58-59 automatic, 59 Identificatory designation of meaning, 30 306 Index "Identificatory" experience, 29 Identíficatory process of understanding, 32 Image, aesthetic, 143-157 Adorno on, 149-150, 154 Immanent critique, 137-139, 140, 141 of finite discourses, 218 of reason, 211-212 Immanent negativity, 184 Incomprehensibility of aesthetic object, 150-155 Insanity (madness), as disintegration not problem, 235-236 Institutional status of the aesthetic, 174-177 Intellectualist legend, and Derrida, 194 Interpretation configurative logic of, 107-127 and evaluation, 131, 138, 143-144, 144-145 hermeneutic logic of, 91-92 two perspectives of, 107-108 undecidability of, 112, 114, 144 Iterability of signs or signifiers, 35-36, 186-192, 193, 194, 196 Jakobson, Roman, 33, 34, 36, 71 Jauß, Hans Robert, 12, 62 Jünger, Ernst, 171 Kafka, Franz, 50, 51, 114 Adorno's analysis on, 17, 19 "Prometheus" 115-117, 119-120, 121- 122, 124-125 and reification, 266n.l5 Kaleidoscope-prism metaphor, 117 Kant, Immanuel on the aesthetic, 99 on dialectic of reason, 206, 207 and the Idea, 199-201, 202, 204, 205, 206, 209, 210 and Idea of immortality, 220 and restriction of valid cognition, 209 Kantian aesthetics, vii and Adorno's writings, 26 and aesthetic autonomy, 7, 16, 25 and aesthetic experience, 16 and aesthetic negativity, 6-7 and aesthetic pleasure, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 170 on aesthetic representation, 26 and aesthetic spirit, 16, 19-20, 21, 22, 23 on beauty, 170 theory of genius, 21 and traditional view of beauty, 128 Kierkegaard, Spren, 230-231, 278n.22 Klee, Paul, 48 Klossowski, Pierre, 153 Kristeva, Julia, 71 Language, 30 aesthetic, 101 of art, 100 Austin's pragmatics of, 192-194 and crisis of meaning, 187, 188 deconstructivist analysis of, 186 and Derrida, 203, 204, 205 disintegration of (Adorno), 217 of fiction, 56-58 two dimensions of, 34 Legends, 122-123 Prometheus, 115-117, 118-120, 121- 122, 124-125 Linguistically detached reason, 238- 239 Linguistic rules, 50 Literalness, aesthetic, 16-19, 21-22, 27 Lotman, J., 62 Lukács, Georg, 109, 139, 244 Lyotard, Jean-François, 45, 153 Madness, as disintegration not problem, 235-236 Mallarmé, Stéphane, 112 Marquard, Odo, 62, 171-177 Meaning aesthetic, 48, 60-61, 66, 90-91, 95, 97, 126 of art, 83 crisis of, 187, 188, 189, 190 intensified, 100-101 metaphysical, 90 vs. mimesis, 87-105 transsemantic, 152, 154 understanding of, 71-72 Metaphysical meaning, 90 Metaphysical models, 191 Metaphysics Adorno on, 210, 217-218, 220 post-Kantian, 209 and death, 218, 223 in Derrida's analysis, 164, 165, 208, 211 and modernity, 218 Mimesis, 264n.39 hermeneutic teleologization of, 102 vs. meaning, 87-105 307 Index Modernity Adorno on, 218 aesthetic, 178 of aesthetic reflection, viii—i disintegration of language in, 217 philosophical discourse of, 242-252 Moral judgment, in social-critical misconception, 8 Multideterminacy, 65 Music and Adorno on aesthetic evaluation, 132, 134-135 and Adorno on mimetic reenactment, 97 as allographic, 39-40 Negation, determinate, 24-25, 29, 65, 224, 235, 258n.40 Negative aesthetics. See Aesthetic negativity Negative dialectic and the aesthetic, 239 and Derrida, 251 genealogical grounding of, 212, 213, 214, 216, 220, 223, 224, 226, 242, 243 teleological grounding of, 212-213, 214, 215-216, 242 Negative dialectic(s) of reason, 205, 239 and Adorno, 209-214, 215-217, 223 and Derrida, 205-214, 223 and foundations-grounding, 207-208, 210 genealogical grounding of, 223 (See abo at Genealogical) and linguistically detached reason, 238 Negative Dialectics (Adorno), 208-209, 216, 217, 238-239 and crisis experience, 224 "Meditations in Metaphysics" 217, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223-224, 226, 227 and metaphysics, 220 Negative processuality, 86, 110, 113, 155 Negativity, 13, 26-27. See abo Aesthetic negativity as Adorno category, Adorno on cognition of, 225 Adorno's aesthetics of, 18 aesthetic experience of, 168, 223, 224- 225, 225-226, 227-228, 229, 230, 231-232, 235-237, 239, 241-242, 250 of deconstruction, 239 and Derrida's concept, 65 immanent, 184 nonaesthetic cognition of, 224—226, 241-242 nonaesthetic sense of, 167 total, 224, 227-228, 234-236, 252 Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm and aesthetically incomprehensible object, 150-151, 153 and aesthetic experience, 17 and aesthetic pleasure, 8, 9 and art as relief, 172 and Dionysian, 247 Habermas on, 248 and philosophical discourse of modernity, 242 and Prometheus myth, 116 on "romantic" 249 theory of semblance, 153 Nonaesthetic approach, 182, 184, 185, 215 Nonaesthetic cognition of negativity, 224-226, 241-242 self-subversion in, 239 Nonaesthetic discourse or practice and Adorno on art, 250 and aesthetic experience, vii, 251 Adorno on, 251 Derrida on, 163 and aesthetic negativity, 167-168, 251 and deconstruction, xiii and linguistically detached reason, 238-239 and modern conception of art, 249 rationality of, 236-237 Nonaesthetic experience Adorno on, 29-30 of disintegration, 221-222 Nonaesthetic meaning, 91 Nonaesthetic reason, and aesthetic experience, viii Nonaesthetic sense of negativity, 167 Nonaesthetic use of signs, 233-234, 237-238 Normal discourses, 183 Normative experience, direct, 141-143, 145, 146, 151, 161 Notation, definite, 39 Notes to Literature (Adorno), 114 Objectification, of art, 137, 154 Other, understanding of, 92-93 308 Index Patzig, G., 40, 41, 42-43, 49 Pfitzner, Hans Erich, 132 Philosophical aesthetics, viii, 164 Philosophical discourse of modernity, 242 and Adorno, 242 and Derrida, 250-251 Habermas critique of, 242-250, 251- 252 Philosophy, 198 Idea of, 205 Philosophy of Modern Music (Adorno), 133, 134 Plato Derrida on, 163-164 dialectic of, 212 Play as metaphor, 124 and Plato, 163-164 Pleasure, aesthetic, 7-8 and Adorno, 8-16, 27 and aesthetic experience, 15-16, 29 and aesthetic negadvity, 12-14, 15, 29 Kant on, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 170 and purist misconception, 15 vs. social-critical conception, 6 Poetry Adorno's interpretadons of, 114 as relationships of order, 101 Polysemy theory, cridque of, 61-70 Postaesthetic viewpoint, 179, 181-182, 225 Post-avant-garde art, ix Poststructal theory, polysemy theory rejected in, 65 Pragmasemandc rules, 51 Pragmadc rules, 51 Pragmatics of language, Austin on, 192- 194 Prejudices, 91-92, 103 Prism-kaleidoscope metaphor, 117 Probability, aesthetic, 56-57 Problem solving and Adorno on art, 250 and aesthedc experience, 243 and modernization processes, 246 Processual arrangement, of Prometheus variations, 119 Processual constitution of identity and meaning of signs, 191 Processual dimension, 97 Processual enactment of understanding, 54 Processual identification of aesthetic signifers, 49 Processuality, 31, 32 aesthetic, 90 of aesthetic difference, 6 of aesthetic experience, 46, 65 and aesthetic negativity, 104 of aesthetic understanding, 32, 49, 86 de-automatizing, 33 of event of aesthetic experience, 14-15 negative of aesthetic experience, 110, 113, 155 of signifier formation, 86 and understanding, 146 of the understanding or meaning, 67 understanding and mimesis in, 89 Processual linking of signifying elements, 88 Processual logic of aesthetic experience, 15, 232-233 Processual negation of automatic understanding, 161-162, 162-163, 165 Processual negativity of aesthetic experience, 131 of art, 164 and sovereignty, 181 Processual reenactment of the efforts at meaning formation, 100 Progress model, in Adorno's aesthetic evaluation, 134, 135, 136 Prometheus legend, 115-117, 118-120, 121-122, 124-125 Purist misconception of aesthetic negativity, 4-6, 14-15, 25-26 and aesthetic negativity-pleasure link, 13 Rationality and art, xi of nonaesthetic discourses, 236-237 Rationalization process of modernity, 243-250 Reason aesthetic critique of, xii, xiii, 250 and aesthetic experience, vii-viii communicative conception of, 246 crisis of, 216-217 functionalist, 245 ideality of, 203, 204, 205 instrumental, 244, 245 Kantian view of, 200-201 linguistically detached, 238-239 negative dialectics of, 205-214, 215- 217, 223, 238, 239 309 Index subjective (Habermas), 243-244, 245, 246, 247, 248 Recognition of aesthetic" 253-254 Gadamer on, 94 Wellmer on, 94-95 Recoupling, of rationalized culture with everyday communication, 253- 254 Reductionism and Adorno's evaluation, 135 of descriptive criteria, 132 Regulative ideas, 200-201, 207 ideal structure as, 202 objects of metaphysics as, 210 reason as, 204 Reification, 244-246, 251-252 Adorno's objection to, 19 aesthetic, 46, 156 and autonomous logic of aesthetic experience, i of beauty, 154-155 in Kafka's text, 266n.l5 Relief model, 171-173, 177 and institutional constraints on aesthetic experience, 174-177 Remythicization, 247, 248, 250 Repetition aesthetic, 55 automatic, 11, 29, 31-32 de-automatizing, 55 Gadamer on, 94 Representations and Schopenhauer on aesthetic contemplation, 150 and shift to aesthetic attitude, 228-229 Reverse romanticism, 250 Revolutionary discourses, 183 Rhetorical conclusions, 107 Romantic aesthetic or conception of art, 249-251 and aesthetics of the improbable, 57 vs. modern aesthetics, 242, 249-250, 252 on sovereignty of art, xii, xiii Romanticism and critique of reason, xii-xiii reverse, 250 Rorty, Richard, 182-186, 215 Rule of the identification mechanism, 11 Schelling, F. W. J., 249 Schklovsky, Viktor, 31, 33, 36 Schönberg, Arnold, 132, 134-135 Schopenhauer, Arthur, 150 Searle, John R., 192 Self-evaluation, 139-140 Semantic rules, 50 Semblance. See also Appearance, art works as aesthetic, 216 Nietzsche's theory of, 153 Semiotic formation of meaning, 99 Semiotics, and aesthetic negativity, xii, 33. See also Polysemy theory; Sign; Signifier, aesthetic; Signifier formation Sensuality, aesthetic, 97. See also Pleasure, aesthetic Seriousness of the aesthetic, 170 of aesthetic negativity, 172, 173, 177 Servile art or aesthetic experience, 164, 170, 173, 177, 179 Sibelius, Jean, 132 Sign(s) Adorno on, 216-217 aesthetic, 33, 93-94 and aesthetic experience, 157 as ambiguous, 68 automatic understanding of, 234 Derrida on, 186-195 and iterability, 186-192, 193, 194, 196 historical, 91 nonaesthetic use of, 233-234, 237-238 and text (Derrida), 165-166 Signifier(s), aesthetic, 34—36, 259n.l3 and aesthetic negation, 61 Goodman on, 38-45, 47 and hermeneutics, 103 superabundance of, 66 vacillation of, 36-37, 44-45, 104 (see also Vacillation, aesthetic) and whole vs. part, 81 Signifier formation and aesthetic negation of understanding, 85-86 and aesthetics of negativity, 86 contextual assumptions in, 58-59 de-automatizing repetition of automatic acts of understanding as, 55 deferral of, 52, 60 and hermeneutics, 71, 74, 86, 87, 103 negative processuality of, 86 self-subversion of, 45-61 Social-critical misconception of aesthetic negativity, 4-6, 14, 25-26 310 Index Social-critical misconception of aesthetic negativity (cont.) and aesthetic pleasure, 7-11 and deconstructive theories, xii Social-critical theorems, and whole vs. elements, 77, 78 Sontag, Susan, 15 Sovereignty, aesthetic, 169 Adorno on, 168, 169-170, 176-177, 178-179, 181, 251 and aesthetic critique of reason, xiii and aesthetic experience, 164, 165, 168, 169, 170-171, 181, 232, 242, 252-253 and aesthetic modernity, 178 and aesthetic negativity, 164, 176-177, 254 and antinomy of the aesthetic, viii-xi Derrida on, 164, 165-166, 177-179, 181, 225 and Derrida on aesthetic negativity, 250 vs. lieteronomous truncation, 254 and nonaesthetic effects, 242 and nonaesthetic relevance, 168 and nonaesthetic validity, 225, 226 vs. "recognition" 252-253 and relief or compensation model, 171-177 and romantic schema, 251 Spirit. See Aesthetic spirit Starobinski, Jean, 118 Stendhal, on aesthetic pleasure, 8 Strategy(ies), aesthetic, 113, 114, 121, 124, 144-145 Stravinsky, Igor, 134, 136 Structuralism and Derrida, 198, 209 and hermeneutic aesthetics, 82 and meaning, 48 Subjective reason, Habermas on, 243- 244, 245, 246, 247, 248 Subjectivism, institutionalization of, 175-177 Subjectivity, liberated (Gehlen), 175 Sublime, 151 Success, aesthetic, 128 Supplementarity, in Derrida's analysis, 194-196 Szondi, Peter, 18 Technical analysis, 132, 135 Teleological grounding, of negatíve dialectic, 212-213, 214, 215-216, 242 Temple, Greek, 147 Text, aesthetic, 67 Derrida on, 162-169, 181, 250 as prism, 117 • Transcendental-philosophical theories of grounding of foundations, 198- 200 Transfiguration, aesthetic, 156, 228- 230, 231-233, 238 Understandability, 90 Understanding aesthetic, 43, 93-94 (See also Aesthetic understanding) and aesthetically incomprehensible object, 150-151 aesthetically processual enactment of, 34 and aesthetic experience, 71-72, 78, 102-103, 227, 253 aesthetic negation of, 85, 156 automatic, 31, 32, 33, 36, 98 (See also Automatic understanding) and beauty, 146-147, 149, 150, 161 deferral of, 69, 79, 215 disruption of, 50-53, 54-55, 58, 93 of fictional language, 57 historical, 83 interpretations as related to, 145- 146 interpretive, 92 of meaning, 71-72 objects and modes of, 32 of the other, 92-93 self-subversion of, 26, 131 Utopia, cognitive, 213 Vacillation, aesthetic, 36-37, 44-45, 46, 69, 79, 85, 104 Valéry, Paul, 33, 36, 46, 62, 71 Value, aesthetic, 128-130. See also Aesthetic evaluation; Beauty and the beautiful Weber, Max, vii, 172 Webern, Anton von, 132 Wellmer, Albrecht, 94, 103, 161, 200, 202 Whole-part relation, and hermeneutics vs. aesthetics of negativity, 74-87 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 205, 206, 207, 234 |
