Yvonne Sherratt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3463997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yvonne Sherratt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yvonne |
| FAMILY NAME | Sherratt |
| SIGNATURE | SHERRATT Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Adorno's aesthetic concept of aura
Philosophers within the discipline of the history of philosophy have long since demonstrated a preoccupation with the history of aesthetic ideas. However, not all aesthetic concepts in 19th- and 20th-century thought have been given an adequate analysis. One concept which, while attracting interest in literary theory debates, has rarely been mentioned in history of philosophy debates, is that of aura. The reason for the marginal role of aura in pr…
Continental philosophy of social science: Hermeneutics, Genealogy, Critical Theory
Continental Philosophy of Social Science
Continental Philosophy of Social Science demonstrates the unique and autonomous nature of the continental approach to social science and contrasts it with the Anglo-American tradition. Yvonne Sherratt argues for the importance of an historical understanding of the Continental tradition in order to appreciate its individual, humanist character. Examining the key traditions of hermeneutic, genealogy, and critical theory, and the texts of major thin…
Adorno's Positive Dialectic
This book offers an interpretation of the work of Theodor Adorno. In contrast to the conventional view that Adorno's is in essence a critical philosophy, Yvonne Sherratt traces systematically a utopian thesis that pervades all the major aspects of Adorno's thought. She places Adorno's work in the context of German Idealist and later Marxist and Freudian traditions, and then analyses his key works to show how the aesthetic, epistemological, psycho…
Adorno's Positive Dialectic
"This book offers a radically new interpretation of the work of Theodor Adorno. In contrast to the conventional view that Adorno's is in essence a critical philosophy. Yvonne Sherratt traces systematically a utopian thesis that pervades all the major aspects of Adorno's thought." "She places Adorno's work in the context of German Idealist and later Marxist and Freudian traditions, and then analyses his key works to show how the aesthetic, epistem…
Adorno and Horkheimer's Concept of 'Enlightenment
L'A. defend la validite du concept des Lumieres chez Adorno et Horkheimer en examinant leur travail de conceptualisation et de critique. Mesurant l'influence des idees de Freud sur leur redefinition de la notion de subjectivite, l'A. montre qu'Adorno et Horkheimer s'inscrivent dans le cadre de la theorie critique qui denonce la reference omnipresente au mythe dans la seconde moitie du XX e siecle
The Dialectic of Enlightenment: A contemporary reading
The importance of the concept of subjectivity has been underestimated in the work of Theodor Adorno. In order to address this lacuna we make an interpretation of Adorno’s text Dialectic of Enlightenment, in the form of an ‘idealized’ narrative of enlightenment’s historical decline into its ‘self-conceived’ opposite, namely myth. Within this narrative we unravel the Freudian assumptions underlying Adorno’s work. We depict the form of subjectivity …
Instrumental reason's unreason
In this article I argue that Adorno makes an internal critique of instrumental reason. I depict Adorno's notion of instrumental reason by showing how he combines Freud's materialistic epistemology with his own German Idealist inheritance. I outline his argument for the decline of instrumental reason into mythic ‘animism’
Aura: ■ The Aesthetic of Redemption
Adorno and Benjamin offer us an aesthetic concept, that of aura. The analysis of this has tended to circumnavigate the concept, that is, it has examined the historical dimension to aura, or turned to the texts of Adorno and Benjamin with a view to finding discrepancies between their theses. However, the important conceptual detail has not been explored with suf ficient rigour. My question is a simple one: what is aura? How do we piece together it…
Adorno's aesthetic concept of aura
Philosophers within the discipline of the history of philosophy have long since demonstrated a preoccupation with the history of aesthetic ideas. However, not all aesthetic concepts in 19th- and 20th-century thought have been given an adequate analysis. One concept which, while attracting interest in literary theory debates, has rarely been mentioned in history of philosophy debates, is that of aura. The reason for the marginal role of aura in pr…
Instrumental reason's unreason
In this article I argue that Adorno makes an internal critique of instrumental reason. I depict Adorno's notion of instrumental reason by showing how he combines Freud's materialistic epistemology with his own German Idealist inheritance. I outline his argument for the decline of instrumental reason into mythic ‘animism’
Adorno and Horkheimer's Concept of 'Enlightenment
L'A. defend la validite du concept des Lumieres chez Adorno et Horkheimer en examinant leur travail de conceptualisation et de critique. Mesurant l'influence des idees de Freud sur leur redefinition de la notion de subjectivite, l'A. montre qu'Adorno et Horkheimer s'inscrivent dans le cadre de la theorie critique qui denonce la reference omnipresente au mythe dans la seconde moitie du XX e siecle
The Dialectic of Enlightenment: A contemporary reading
The importance of the concept of subjectivity has been underestimated in the work of Theodor Adorno. In order to address this lacuna we make an interpretation of Adorno’s text Dialectic of Enlightenment, in the form of an ‘idealized’ narrative of enlightenment’s historical decline into its ‘self-conceived’ opposite, namely myth. Within this narrative we unravel the Freudian assumptions underlying Adorno’s work. We depict the form of subjectivity …
Aura: ■ The Aesthetic of Redemption
Adorno and Benjamin offer us an aesthetic concept, that of aura. The analysis of this has tended to circumnavigate the concept, that is, it has examined the historical dimension to aura, or turned to the texts of Adorno and Benjamin with a view to finding discrepancies between their theses. However, the important conceptual detail has not been explored with suf ficient rigour. My question is a simple one: what is aura? How do we piece together it…
The Dialectic of Enlightenment: A contemporary reading
The importance of the concept of subjectivity has been underestimated in the work of Theodor Adorno. In order to address this lacuna we make an interpretation of Adorno’s text Dialectic of Enlightenment, in the form of an ‘idealized’ narrative of enlightenment’s historical decline into its ‘self-conceived’ opposite, namely myth. Within this narrative we unravel the Freudian assumptions underlying Adorno’s work. We depict the form of subjectivity …
Instrumental reason's unreason
In this article I argue that Adorno makes an internal critique of instrumental reason. I depict Adorno's notion of instrumental reason by showing how he combines Freud's materialistic epistemology with his own German Idealist inheritance. I outline his argument for the decline of instrumental reason into mythic ‘animism’
Adorno and Horkheimer's Concept of 'Enlightenment
L'A. defend la validite du concept des Lumieres chez Adorno et Horkheimer en examinant leur travail de conceptualisation et de critique. Mesurant l'influence des idees de Freud sur leur redefinition de la notion de subjectivite, l'A. montre qu'Adorno et Horkheimer s'inscrivent dans le cadre de la theorie critique qui denonce la reference omnipresente au mythe dans la seconde moitie du XX e siecle
Adorno's Positive Dialectic
This book offers an interpretation of the work of Theodor Adorno. In contrast to the conventional view that Adorno's is in essence a critical philosophy, Yvonne Sherratt traces systematically a utopian thesis that pervades all the major aspects of Adorno's thought. She places Adorno's work in the context of German Idealist and later Marxist and Freudian traditions, and then analyses his key works to show how the aesthetic, epistemological, psycho…
Adorno's Positive Dialectic
"This book offers a radically new interpretation of the work of Theodor Adorno. In contrast to the conventional view that Adorno's is in essence a critical philosophy. Yvonne Sherratt traces systematically a utopian thesis that pervades all the major aspects of Adorno's thought." "She places Adorno's work in the context of German Idealist and later Marxist and Freudian traditions, and then analyses his key works to show how the aesthetic, epistem…
Continental Philosophy of Social Science
Continental Philosophy of Social Science demonstrates the unique and autonomous nature of the continental approach to social science and contrasts it with the Anglo-American tradition. Yvonne Sherratt argues for the importance of an historical understanding of the Continental tradition in order to appreciate its individual, humanist character. Examining the key traditions of hermeneutic, genealogy, and critical theory, and the texts of major thin…
Continental philosophy of social science: Hermeneutics, Genealogy, Critical Theory
Adorno's aesthetic concept of aura
Philosophers within the discipline of the history of philosophy have long since demonstrated a preoccupation with the history of aesthetic ideas. However, not all aesthetic concepts in 19th- and 20th-century thought have been given an adequate analysis. One concept which, while attracting interest in literary theory debates, has rarely been mentioned in history of philosophy debates, is that of aura. The reason for the marginal role of aura in pr…
Critical Theory and Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Enlightenment (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis (2 works) · Aura (2 works)