“ART HAS NO POWER OVER SCHEIN THROUGH ITS ABOLITION”

• Authors: Rosen Michael
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Theodor Adorno’s aesthetics takes up the German Idealist and Romantic idea of “Schein” – the “beautiful illusion” characteristic of authentic art – and reinterprets it through the lens of his own very particular kind of dialectical Marxism. Unlike his friend, Walter Benjamin, who welcomed the overcoming of so-called auratic art, Adorno believed that Schein can thus be vindicated. Whether this is so, the article argues, depends on how far one accepts Adorno’s adoption of a Marxist-Hegelian conception of social meaning.

Keywords

EN

THEODOR ADORNO; HEGEL; ART; SCHEIN; MARXISM; ILLUSION

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 80
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 149 – 162

Contributors

author

Rosen Michael

• Department of Government, Harvard University, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge St Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2025.80.2.1