Where the sign fades into the shadows : writing theory after Adorno

Abstract

The definition of “literary form” is the key access to Adorno’s Aesthetics.  Adorno has a literary conception of art, with a profound humanistic signification. The condition of this definition depends on the medial strucuture of the society he deals with. Actual Aesthetics is not driven by the same effort, by reason of the changed medial conditions. It’s possible to understand this, if you observe the development of different contemporary philosophies of art. But it’s possible as well if you describe the writing style of the contemporary german philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, whose “narrative form” of construction of theory is, at the same time, an original legacy of Adorno’s Aesthetics and a transformation of his critical injunction.