Year: 1987
Type: article
Abstract: In “The Source of the Tragic,” Carl Schmitt articulates a detailed critique of autonomy aesthetics in which he rearticulates principles of his political theory — the critique of liberalism, normativism and subjectivity: decisionism. His essay can thus be read as a sort of right-wing inversion of the critique of bourgeois aesthetics expressed in Adorno's “Lyric Poetry and Society.” Schmitt belabors both the divisions characteristic of 19th century disciplines which prevented historical consideration of a work of art, and the attendant emphasis on the subjectivity of the artist and the sublimity of art. Unlike lyric poetry or even dramas written more for publication than performance, he contends that Shakespeare's plays should neither be considered products of a free and isolated subjectivity nor artistic preserves untainted by the banalities of contemporary history.
Source: Telos
DOI: 10.3817/0687072153
Author: D. Pan
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2031050706