Political aesthetics as method
– some general reflections

Demian Berger
(Universität Luzern)

In literary texts which usually do not formulate any explicit political
programm, the question of political aesthetics as method (not as object of
reflection) becomes even more urgent than in theoretical texts: One can ask
about the possibility of a method that looks upon literary practices as
political forms of articulation without neglecting their specific literaricity.
The question is then whether the distinction between immanent and
political reading is a false alternative. Such problems shall be discussed
using the example of Theodor W. Adorno’s reading of Stefan George with its
potentials and limitations.

December 5, 2019, 5 pm
Faculty of Arts, Charles University,
Praha 1, Náměstí Jana Palacha, room 104

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