DIREITO & LITERATURA MODERNISTA: THEODOR W. ADORNO E A REDENÇÃO ESTÉTICA DA MODERNIDADE

Abstract

This essay paraphrases some philosophical, legal and aesthetic theses by Theodor W. Adorno, with a view to contributing to overcoming the double deficit present in Law & Literature studies. It rescues and articulates these theses with the historical context that gave rise to them, that is, the development of a critical theory, the passage from liberal to social constitutionalism, and the emergence of modernist movements. His hypothesis is that Adorno's philosophy and aesthetic theory respond to these socio-historical events, in a way that self-consciously and deliberately theoretical, artistic and political procedures echo in them. While the legal form would be the expression of an irrational rationality typical of the dialectic of enlightenment, modernism would express the aesthetic redemption of modernity.