What to Read After Aesthetic theory
Readers who loved Aesthetic theory by Theodor W. Adorno keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Aesthetic theory is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Aesthetic theory
Image, music, text
Truth and method
Of grammatology
The Politics of Aesthetics
S/Z
Introductory lectures on aesthetics
The dialectics of seeing
The philosophical discourse of modernity
Francis Bacon
A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful
Aesthetics and Politics (Radical Thinkers)
The culture industry
Looking awry
Eroticism
Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism
Minima Moralia
Illuminations
Différence et répétition
Reflections
Phenomenology of Perception
The dialogic imagination
Powers of horror
Poetry, Language, Thought.
The Ticklish Subject