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Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers, Oxford
This book discusses how from their different backgrounds and on different levels, the German philosopher, sociologist and musicologist,Theodor W. Adorno, (1903-1969) and the Irish playwright, Brian Friel,(1929-2015) came to the conclusion that the...
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This book discusses how from their different backgrounds and on different levels, the German philosopher, sociologist and musicologist,Theodor W. Adorno, (1903-1969) and the Irish playwright, Brian Friel,(1929-2015) came to the conclusion that the modern crisis rendered art's affirmative essence, like all positivistic fixations, obsolete. Cover -- HalfTitle -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: Imagination and Reality -- Chapter 1 Brian Friel and Theodor W. Adorno: Two Modern Dialecticians -- Beginnings -- Mediation -- Home and Exile -- Childhood and Place -- The Border: Paradigm of Dialectics -- The American Experience -- Culture and Critique -- Commitment97 -- Language and Identity -- Music and Language -- The Material and the Immaterial -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Metaphysical Experience and the Problem of Tradition -- Transcending the System -- The Ambivalence of Language: Identity Versus Identification -- The Physical and Its Metaphysical Other -- Truth as the Unity of Contradictions -- Transition and Transcendence -- A New Metaphysics -- The 'Insoluble Contradiction of Tradition' -- Aristocrats: Tradition Versus Traditionalism -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Brian Friel and Theodor W. Adorno: Utopia, Dialectics, and Performances -- Introduction -- Utopia -- The Utopia of Art and the Language of Music -- Performances as the Realization of Utopia? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 'The Truth About Hedda Gabler': Ibsen's Play, Brian Friel's 'Version', and Adorno's Reflections -- 'Fin de siècle' as 'Belle Époque': Expression of the Dialectic of Life and Death -- The Woman Question Reflecting Man's Problem, and the Factor of Individuality -- Hedda: A Failed Existentialist? -- The Struggle for Identity -- The Dialectic of Truth, of Beauty, and the Good in Adorno's Reading of Hedda Gabler -- Brian Friel's 'Version' of Hedda Gabler -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Brian Friel and Francis Bacon: Artistic Creation and Faith Healing Viewed in the Light of Negative Dialectics -- 'The Burden of the Incommunicable' -- The Artist: A Healer in Need to Be Healed? - Artistic Self-cognition and Authorial Self-irony -- The Arcane Space of Liberation.
