Notes
1Aesthetic
Theory is, of course, the principal philosophical text
to address the question of autonomization in Adorno, though
the problem is present in most everything Adorno explores
in the domains of music, literature, and culture. While the
debates over this issue have generated a field of
discussion far too complex to do justice to in a footnote,
two books are particularly relevant in the context of our
discussion: see Fredric Jameson's A Singular
Modernity and J.M. Bernstein's The Fate of
Art.
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2This is a
distillation of an argument that I have recently made in
more detail in "Kindling and Ash: Radical Aestheticism in
Keats and Shelley."
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