This is a blog for the community of Rhetoric 108—On the Philosophy of Music: "Music to Hear"—in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2011 and Fall 2011.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
A Fifth of Beethoven
..." however the depravation through kitsch that displays the powerlessness of the great works also reclaims their leftovers for society, which because its own order is no less illusory than kitsch, is oonly capable of experiencing them as such" Adorno, Night Music, p. 85
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