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William S. Allen is an independent researcher at the University of Southampton, UK, and the author of Aesthetics of Negativity: Blanchot, Adorno, and Autonomy (2016); Without End: Sade’s Critique of Reason (Bloomsbury, 2018); Blanchot and the Outside of Literature (Bloomsbury, 2019); Noir and Blanchot: Deteriorations of the Event (Bloomsbury, 2020); and, Illegibility: Blanchot and Hegel (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Sustained by an uncommon critical poise and a circumspect conceptual sobriety that allows for both nuance and vigor, Allen excavates the ways in which Adorno’s innovative mobilizations of the post-Hegelian dialectic cannot be separated from his rethinking of aesthetics. Allen’s new book constitutes a thoughtful contribution to our ongoing reassessment of the specifically aesthetic dimension of Adorno’s philosophical project. * Gerhard Richter, Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature, Brown University, USA and author of Thinking with Adorno: The Uncoercive Gaze * Adorno, Aesthetics, Dissonance is certain to make a distinctive contribution to the most recent literature on Adorno. While many have traced the influences of Kant and Hegel on Adorno's aesthetics, this book definitively shows the equally deep marks made by Adorno's engagement with a host of contemporary composers and writers. Here we find an Adorno developing his thinking about art and society while embedded in the most advanced art of his time. * Tom Huhn, Chair of BFA Visual & Critical Studies and Art History, School of Visual Arts, USA, tomhuhn.com *
