{"product_id":"aesthetic-theory-by-theodor-w-adorno-9781780936598","title":"Aesthetic Theory","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheodor Adorno (1903-69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School, the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US in the 1930s, including such thinkers as Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer. His work has proved enormously influential in sociology, philosophy, and cultural theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAesthetic Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is Adorno's posthumous magnum opus and the culmination of a lifetime's investigation. Analysing the sublime, the ugly, and the beautiful, Adorno shows how such concepts frame and distil human experience and that it is human experience that ultimately underlies aesthetics. In Adorno's formulation, ‘art is the sedimented history of human misery’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000519344364,"sku":"9781780936598","price":68.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2066603482822.jpg?v=1763280076","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/aesthetic-theory-by-theodor-w-adorno-9781780936598","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}