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

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)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Historical Materialism Book Series ; 330.
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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Art History.
Art Theory.
Philosophy.

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Call Number: N5305

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.