TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christa Mrowka
PY  - 2023
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781803740744
TI  - Brian Friel and Theodor W. Adorno
T2  - Essays on Two Modern Dialecticians
DO  - 10.3726/b20444
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1290330
N2  - This book discusses how from their different backgrounds and on different levels, the German philosopher, sociologist and musicologist,Theodor W. Adorno, (1903-1969) and the Irish playwright, Brian Friel,(1929-2015) came to the conclusion that the modern crisis rendered art’s affirmative essence, like all positivistic fixations, obsolete. Only a new conception of dialectics, based on the reciprocity of opposites, rather than on antitheses, is capable of healing modern dichotomies. Independent of Adorno’s Negative Dialectics and Critical Theory, Friel is aware that with the processual character of life this requires of the artist in particular an attitude both critical and conciliatory and a persistent readiness to change. Reality is in need of possibility, its dialectic other. Uncertainty, in Friel’s Theatre of Hope and Despair is no longer a defect of our time, but a source of creation in art as well as in life.
KW  - Art and philosophy, individual and society, modern crisis, metaphysics today, utopia, aesthetic experience, creative  process, reconciliation of opposites, artistic self-reflection, Brian Friel and Theodor W. Adorno, Essays on Two Modern Dialecticians, Christa Velten-Mrowka
LA  - English
ER  -