What is it about?
To demonstrate the continuing benefits of Adorno's thought for contemporary scholars, I develop a term called "Adorno's Etudes." Like the musical exercises of the same name, these etudes help to strengthen our critical, philosophical thinking while also aspiring toward complete "musical" compositions of their own. To show these etudes at work, I turn to two sculptures: The Adorno Monument, by Vadim Zakharov, and An Exile Dreaming of St Adorno, by Siah Armajani.
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Why is it important?
Instead of always "using" philosophy, I would like to develop techniques for doing philosophy artfully. Given Adorno's musical background, I think his writing lends itself to this artfulness.
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I consider this article an experiment in Performance Philosophy, by which I mean that the thinking here is intended to demonstrate how philosophy performs, how it constitutes an art (as opposed to a science), and how it helps to reveal the construction of other, more traditional, forms of art.
Dr Will Daddario
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This page is a summary of: Adorno’s Etudes: Excessive Exactitude and “Having Crossed”, The European Legacy, August 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2016.1216637.
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