The narrowest path

• Verfasst von: Mehrgan, Omid [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The narrowest path
• Titelzusatz: antinomies of self-determination in four aesthetic studies
• Verf.angabe: by Omid Mehrgan
• Verlagsort: Leiden ; Boston
• Verlag: Brill
• E-Jahr: 2025
• Jahr: [2025]
• Umfang: XII, 247 Seiten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 330
• ISBN: 978-90-04-71114-3
• Schlagwörter: (s)Kunst / (s)Ästhetik / (s)Kunstpsychologie
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Mehrgan, Omid: The Narrowest Path. - Leiden : Brill, 2025. - 1 Online-Ressource (284 pages)
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Mehrgan, Omid: The Narrowest Path. - 1st ed.. - Boston : BRILL, 2024. - 1 online resource (261 pages)
• RVK-Notation: LH 61040
• RVK-Notation: LH 61080
• K10plus-PPN: 1906529493

Abstract

"A strategic reconstruction of modern German thought from the standpoint of aesthetic theory, The Narrowest Path reveals the characteristically modern, revolutionary project of freedom-as-autonomy to be unresolvably antinomic. Basing himself on four seminal texts by Kleist, Hegel, Marx, and Adorno, Mehrgan develops four basic figures: the literary, the person, the republic, and the artwork. All flourished during the long period between the French Revolution and the aftermath of the Second World War in Europe. The key antagonist is the rule of capital, paradoxically enabling self-determination and thwarting it. Still present in contemporary revolutionary experiments, this daunting conflict, the book argues, shows itself best in the aesthetic - but the resolution lies elsewhere"--