The Necessity of Over-interpretation: Adorno, the Essay, and the Gesture of Aesthetic Experience

This article is a discussion of Theodor W. Adorno’s comment, in the beginning of ‘The Essay as Form’, that interpretations of essays are over-interpretations. I argue that this statement is programmatic, and should be understood in the light of Adorno’s essayistic ideal of configuration, his notion...

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Main Author: Anders Johansson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Helsinki University Press 2013-11-01
Series:Estetika
Online Access:https://estetikajournal.org/articles/107