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| Titre : | Brian Friel and Theodor W. Adorno : Utopia, Dialectics and Performances (2018) |
| Auteurs : | Christa VELTENT-MROWKA, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish University Review (Vol 48 n 2 Autumn/Winter 2018) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 299-314 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | For many philosophical thinkers since Thomas More's Utopia, the idea of a perfect human society has been aporetic – present in the imagination, yet beyond existent reality. The atrocities of the 20th century convinced the philosopher and musicologist Adorno that utopia is realizable only in meta-physical moments of aesthetic experience, enabled through the mediating powers of art. Reality is artistically placed into a context of possibility, thus being liberated from its confines. Independent of Adorno, Friel has made these ideas substance and theme of Friel's plays. He has treated them most concisely and compellingly in his late work, Performances, a celebration of the redemptive and creative powers of Eros, which dialectically intertwines the physical and the meta-physical. |
| Pays de publication : | Grande-Bretagne (Royaume Uni) |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
