The Narrowest Path : Antinomies of Self-Determination in Four Aesthetic Studies /

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, M...

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Main Author: Mehrgan, Omid (Author)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Historical Materialism Book Series ; 330.
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505 0 |t Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: 'Not Truth in History, But History in Truth' -- 1 The Opus Against the Apparatus -- 2 The Aesthetic Equation and Its Antinomy -- 3 Antinomic of Form: The Birth of Art's Double Character -- 4 The Special Problematic: What is an Aesthetic Antinomy? -- 5 The General Problematic: Structure Faces History -- 6 A Note on Kleist's Novella -- 1 The Antinomic Act of Literature in Michael Kohlhaas -- 1 Prologue: The Desire of Michael Kohlhaas -- 2 Kohlhaas Follows His Thing: A Failed Forensics -- 3 Luther Stops Kohlhaas: On the Historical Plateau -- 4 The Gypsy Woman Moves Kohlhaas: A Fantastic Tragedy -- 5 Kohlhaas Following Kohlhaas: What is a Literary Act? -- 2 The Human Antinomy in Hegel's Philosophy of Right -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Human Antinomy and Its Personal Resolution -- 3 The Form of the Person: Infinite Self-Relation -- 4 The Personal Antinomy and Its Political Resolution -- 3 The Political Antinomy in Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Constituted Form: The Proclaimed Republic -- 3 The Constituent Content: The Presuppositions of the Republic -- 4 The Antinomy of the Republic: The Politics of Capital -- 5 The Resolution to Come -- 4 Figuring the Answer: A Reconstruction of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory -- 1 Problematic. Art's Double Character as Antinomy -- 2 Analytic of the Autonomous: Form as Separation -- 3 Analytic of the Social: Form as Repetition -- 4 Dialectic. The Sublime and The Ridiculous: Form as Participation -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 
520 |a 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. See Less 
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