The relation between art and society concerning Adorno's aesthetic autonomy concept

• Grant number: 15/07408-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2015
• End date: July 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Sinésio Ferraz Bueno
• Grantee: Karina Constancio Sanitá
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências (FFC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Marília. Marília , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims the study of the aesthetic writings of Theodor W. Adorno to comprehend the relation between art and society, grounding mainly on the concept of aesthetic autonomy. This goal will be achieved based mainly on the differences made by the philosopher amid the work of Samuel Beckett and Bertolt Bretch, under the view of his critics to art's utilitarianism, common to the cultural industry and to the socially engaged art, just as his studies about the relation between the formal structure of a work of art and its aesthetic content. (AU)