Arte e natureza na teoria estética de Theodor W. Adorno

Abstract

Throughout the trajectory of the philosophical writings of Theodor W. Adorno becomes perceptible the different forms with a materialistic and dialectical reflection on nature. We highlight the conference: The idea of the natural history of 1932 and the book entitled Dialectic of enlightenment, written in the decade of 1940. On the other hand, in what would be his last written work and published posthumously in the early 1970s, aesthetic theory, these issues return as a way of thinking of nature as an aesthetic category indispensable for a theory of works of art, the refuge of mimetic behavior. In this way, our objective is inscribed in the perspective of analyzing the beautiful natural and its relation with the works of art, from its late work. Since he takes up not only discussions of his youthful phase but also the considerations of the beautiful natural present in the German aesthetic tradition from the turn of the eighteenth century to the nineteenth, we are drawn in the analysis of this tradition always taking as a starting point the position of Adorno. With this reading, we are enabled to understand how it resigns the beautiful in nature and thus we can launch ourselves in some literary works that the author has been attentive and in what way they enable us to understand the importance of this aesthetic category. Finally, we understand that he was able to give this conception of beauty a new and more important meaning, above all, to his philosophical project inserted in a critical theory of society.