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As an exemplum of that kind of “modern” art, in terms of Adorno, Kafka’s work is marked not only by its strictly “realistic” character, but also by the unavoidable critical and testimonial value of that realism. According to this perspective, both in Adorno and in Benjamin the testimonial aspect of Kafkian writing – that is of a writing as “dialectical image”, as memory of the unfullfilled possibility – it’s all the same not with its symbolical or “epiphanical” aspect but instead with its “allegorical” one.
Both Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno consider ‘aesthetical experience’ as an “image experience” assuming a power of images “to set free forces” directed to produce or support aesthetical-political (Benjamin) or aesthetical-critical (Adorno) requirements. Profane illumination, ‘thinkimages’, phantasmagory, dialectical images, decayed ‘aura’ and technicalized images in Benjamin’s theory of aesthetical modernity. Expressive feature or “mimetic” eloquence in nature and art countering reality, dismantled ‘aura’ in contemporary desacralized work of art, but also persisting ‘aura’ in its meaningful dimension in Adorno’s aesthetical theory.
Negatività, trascendenza, utopia. La dialettica dell'opera d'arte nella Teoria estetica di Adorno
(2018)
Il seguente saggio, tenta di mettere a fuoco la relazione tra negatività e trascendenza così come emerge all'interno della riflessione estetica di Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno. La trascendenza, la relazione con l'eterogeneneo e l'alterità, e la dimensione riflessiva che, secondo Adorno, caratterizzano l'opera d'arte moderna, riguardano, in primo luogo, la ineliminabile tensione dell'opera d'arte verso il senso e, nello stesso tempo, l'impossibilità che esso possa totalmente compiersi all'interno dell'esperienza. In questa prospettiva, in un mondo dominato dal rischio della totale coincidenza tra opera e merce, fino alla identificazione tra arte e industria culturale, per Adorno, l'opera d'arte non si costituisce come tale per ciò che attraverso di essa si realizza, quanto, e forse soprattutto, per ciò che in essa rimane allo stato della potenza, per le possibilità intraviste che si conservano al suo interno che, coincidendo con la sua dimensione utopica, impediscono la piena identificazione tra opera d'arte e merce di consumo. Ciò che conta, da questo punto di vista, non è solo il passaggio da un senso potenziale a un significato determinato, né quello dal possibile al reale, quanto piuttosto - attraverso la continua e dialettica relazione tra essenza e apparenza, linguaggio e realtà, pensiero e sensibilità -, la contingenza stessa del significare e, di qui, la sua possibilità di non-essere o di essere-altrimenti.
The project is focusing on a monumental funerary complex which is located in the Valley of the Nobles at Luxor. The topographic context is certainly very interesting, both because it is not very well known and deeply investigated, as well as because it appears to have been densely exploited in antiquity and for long time. It was then intensively inhabited in the last two centuries, fact that determined the obliteration of numerous tombs, but also the loss of the sense of context of this section of the ancient necropolis of Luxor. It was certainly in antiquity an important section of the necropolis, looking at the monumentality of some of the tombs, and it has been continuously used for centuries for funerary purposes, not only during the "pharaonic period", but also during later periods, as clearly suggested by Ptolemaic tombs, Greco-Roman inscriptions and finds.
A large team is collaborating at the project, including very different scholars and senior students working together from the excavation to the topographic survey, from the diagnostic mapping to the conservation, from the anthropometric analysis to the archaeometric studies, from the epigraphic interpretation to the historical reconstruction. A multidisciplinary approach to the study of this funerary complex can guarantee both an interdisciplinary interpretation of the monuments, as well as of their evolution and use throughout a long period. Too often, in fact, the monuments in Egypt are analysed just looking at their original plan and use in the pharaonic period; nevertheless, in the Theban necropolis the interesting phenomenon of the ‘re-use’ is widely attested, and the tombs present frequent enlargements, later openings, junctions with neighbor tombs, later passages transforming the original plans.
The Neferhotep’s Complex represents one of the most interesting in this sense because about six tombs have been built around a large courtyard in the late Bronze period, but about three more phases are clearly attested now by the new excavations and surveys, showing that also in the ‘later periods’, from the 7th to the 1st centuries BC, the tombs in this complex were continuously reused for burials and widely reorganized, transforming slowly their original shapes. In Roman times, the presence of the legions in the area, has determined a partial change of use of some of the areas of the necropolis, while some other contexts have continued to be used for funerary purposes.
The plan of the funerary complex is quite articulated (fig.1), with a central square courtyard, crowning and emphasizing the larger tomb, which is known as TT49. It was built just at the end of the XVIII dynasty and still preserves the original spectacular paintings. The conservation of the decorations is based on the use of a non-invasive laser methodology. A German team (PROCON) is conservating the tomb, and within the last eight seasons a large portion of the paintings in the funerary chapel have been completely cleaned and consolidated. An equip of Egyptologists, both Argentinian (the University of Buenos Aires and the CONICET) and Brasilian (of the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro) is studying and interpreting hieroglyphics and iconographies. Moreover, a team of archaeologists, geologists and topographers from the University of Chieti is working at the excavations of other two tombs of this architectonic complex and at the mapping of the context and of the tombs. During the last seasons also a team of anthropologists and palaeo-botanists from the Museum of Chieti University has joined the team, especially because of the large quantity of human and organic remains coming from the excavations. The aim of this paper is to present the project, its interdisciplinary methodologies and the preliminary results of the last seasons. Moreover, the complex is presented here analyzing not only the main original tombs and monuments, but including the numerous phases through the centuries till recent times.
Heinrich Kalteisen
(2014)
Raoul Sage
(2010)
The remains of the ancient Roman town, crossed by the Flaminia road and lapped by a bend of the Tiber, are located in a natural landscape of significant beauty, perfect synthesis of archaeology and nature that remained unchanged throughout centuries. Excavations were conducted here from a very early period, especially from 1776 to 1784, when a great quantity of material was removed. The archaeological excavations carried out in Otricoli in the second half of the Seventeenth century together with discoveries in Herculaneum, Pompeii, Stabiae and other cities of ancient Italy, contributed during the Neoclassical period to the rediscovery of classical ideals in art and architecture, partly already rediscovered during Humanism and the Renaissance in Italy.
Nella sua opera estrema, Teoria estetica, Adorno menziona Paul Valéry una ventina di volte. Già questo fatto basterebbe ad attestare l’importanza che Valéry riveste per la riflessione adorniana sull’arte e sull’estetico. Infatti Teoria estetica, sebbene costituita nel suo complesso da un corpus testuale di mole imponente, è avara di citazioni e sono tutto sommato pochi gli autori (sia artisti sia filosofi) i cui nomi ricorrono numerose volte tra le sue pagine. Oltre a Kant e Hegel, e oltre a Benjamin, più frequenti di Valéry sono solo Baudelaire, Beckett, Beethoven e Schönberg, mentre all’incirca egualmente frequenti sono Brecht, Goethe e Nietzsche. Vista la parsimonia con la quale Adorno centellina i propri referenti espliciti nel momento in cui compie il massimo sforzo di condensazione teorica di una lunga riflessione sull’estetico, sarebbe avventato relegare il dato della frequenza del nome di Valéry in Teoria estetica nel novero degli accidenti meramente estrinseci. L’impressione della rilevanza di tale riferimento risulta poi sicuramente rafforzata se si vanno a leggere i luoghi in cui viene effettuato il rimando a Valéry.