num_pages: 204
description: This study traces a provocative, critical-utopian understanding of a term that has been central to Western aesthetics and that is currently much debated. Conceived as an imitative, responsive move toward what is other, mimesis comes to life in Adorno's philosophy and permeates his critique of logo-centrism throughout. It does not concern the representation of objects, but rather addresses an instinctive, frequently repressed relationship to them. Part defense mechanism, part erotic gesture, it is shaped by the Freudian notion of identification. the concept is delineated within the context of Horkheimer &amp; Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment, several of Adorno's literary essays, and his Aesthetic Theory.
language: English
title: Mimesis on the Move: Theodor W. Adorno's Concept of Imitation
titlecomplete: Mimesis on the Move: Theodor W. Adorno's Concept of Imitation (New York University Ottendorfer Series)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.