On Critical Theory and its Approach to Art

Text: Walther Müller-Jentsch | Section: Summaries

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This article outlines the understanding of art by the critical theorists Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and Ernst Fischer, whose thinking draws from Hegel’s historical-philosophical ideas about the epistemological character of art – and the topos of its ‘end’ or ‘death’. Their perspectives on art reveal both a utopian promise of happiness and what they criticise in society.

How to cite this article

Walther Müller-Jentsch (2019): On Critical Theory and its Approach to Art. w/k–Between Science & Art Journal. https://doi.org/10.55597/e5002