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Adorno ()

Aesthetic Theory (1970)

Kant

Concepts: distinction between “phenomena” (our mental representations of things) and “noumena” (the thing in itself)

Critique of Pure Judgement re: art, three kinds of judgments; a function of the subject not the object

1) Judgment of taste based on pleasure (thinks everyone should feel that same pleasure); based on SENSATION not CONCEPT

2) Judgement of the sublime

3) Judgment of the agreeable

 

Heidegger

Concepts: fundamental ontology (BT)

 

Henri Bergson (1859–1941)

Hegel

Concepts: absolute spirit

Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Concepts: The "slave revolt" in morals, Death of God and nihilism, Apollonian and Dionysian, Perspectivism, Will to power, Eternal return, Übermensch

 

Jacques Rancière

Feminism

Queer Theory

 

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