FORM AND CONTENT IN THE ESSAY GENRE: ADORNO’S DER ESSAY ALS FORM UNDER THE LIGHT OF HEGEL

  • Nils Goran Skare
Keywords: Essay, Form, Content, Adorno, Genre.

Abstract

This paper analyzes Adorno’s Der Essay Als Form essay under the light of the reflection about form and content in dialectical logic. First, a reflection is sketched about what form and content are from the principle of identity as a privileged moment of dialectical thought. Secondly, one reads Adorno’s essay and one extracts the concept of essay and its structure. One discusses “heresy” as structurally constitutive of the essay. To conclude, one retraces one’s steps and define the essay as genre.

Author Biography

Nils Goran Skare
Nils G. Skare estudou C. Sociais e Letras na Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR). Trabalha como editor e tradutor, tendo vertido obras como as do poeta E. E. Cummings e do dramaturgo August Strindberg
Published
2017-03-01
Section
Artigos Originais