Романтичарски корени Адорнове теорије мимезиса
Adorno And Romantic Tradition: The Roots Of The Dialectics Of Mimesis And The Avant-Garde

Summary/Abstract: This paper argues that in his Aesthetic TheoryTheodor Adorno went furthest in reviving the romantic tradition. His concept of “imminent mind of things (immanente Sachvernunft)”, approaching – especially, but not exclusively, through art – the “objective truth”, bore clear resemblance to the aesthetics of Novalis. This new concept of mind (rationality) gave a new meaning to Adorno’s old concept of mimesis: mimesis was no longer doomed to be irrational and could be reconciled with the mind. Such an affinity towards early romantic aesthetics explains why Adorno described another early romantic, Franz Schubert, as a “mimic par excellence”.

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