Brian Friel and Theodor W. Adorno

Essays on Two Modern Dialecticians

Christa Mrowka

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English

Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
27 September 2023

This book discusses how from their different backgrounds and on different levels, the German philosopher, sociologist and musicologist,Theodor W. Adorno, (1903-1969) and the Irish playwright, Brian Friel,(1929-2015) came to the conclusion that the modern crisis rendered art’s affirmative essence, like all positivistic fixations, obsolete. Only a new conception of dialectics, based on the reciprocity of opposites, rather than on antitheses, is capable of healing modern dichotomies. Independent of Adorno’s Negative Dialectics and Critical Theory, Friel is aware that with the processual character of life this requires of the artist in particular an attitude both critical and conciliatory and a persistent readiness to change. Reality is in need of possibility, its dialectic other. Uncertainty, in Friel’s Theatre of Hope and Despair is no longer a defect of our time, but a source of creation in art as well as in life.

By: Christa Mrowka
Imprint: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 227g
ISBN: 9781803740737
ISBN 10: 1803740736
Pages: 130
Publication Date: 27 September 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christa Velten-Mrowka, born in Limburg, Germany, taught English language and literature and philosophy at Senior Secondary Schools near Frankfurt a. M. In the 1960s she was a student of Adorno and Max Horkheimer at Frankfurt’s Goethe-University. A long-term member of IASIL she published essays on Brian Friel.