Изкуството като инструмент на социалната критика
Art as an Instrument of Social Criticism

The Communicative Rationality Response to the Thesis of Aesthetic Autonomy

Summary/Abstract: This text discusses the progressive autonomization of art in the modern era and the treatment of this topic in two short, but significant, papers by Jurgen Habermas dating from the early 1980s, in which he sharply criticized the idea regarding absolute detachment of the aesthetic sphere from the communicative practices of everyday life and the contexts of the life world. Reconstructing the basic views of Habermas on this topic by way of a virtual dialogue with Theodor Adorno’s aesthetic theory, this text mutually counterposes two of the most significant thinkers of the 20th century, who belonging to different generations but to the same school of though, in which the theme of art, and its socio-critical functions, has always held a special place, even when it has been approached indirectly, i. e., in the context of other topics.

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