Aesthetic Contemplation and Alienation: The appropriation of Schopenhauer's aesthetics by the mechanisms of Cultural Industry
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Aesthetic contemplation, Alienation, Schopenhauer, Culture IndustryAbstract
Our paper has as subject the appropriation of categories from Schopenhauer’s thought by the mechanism of Culture Industry as it has been theorized by Adorno and Horkheimer. It assumes the possibility of making the proper relationship between both argumentations, especially, within the third part of The World as Will and Representation and the Culture Industry chapter on the work Dialectic of Enlightenment. We aimed, at first, to demonstrate how the concept of aesthetic contemplation allows Schopenhauer, by canceling the will, the annulment of the suffering inherent at the existence to, in a second moment, consider how this same mechanism, co-opted by the culture industry and the mass media, provides a numbing routine resulting in alienation of consciousness.Downloads
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