LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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The effect of literature in enlightening the human mind
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The effect of modern society on human suffering
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The effect of the economy on women’s concerns
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All of the above answers are correct.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Adorno coined the tern ‘identity thinking’ to describe the process of categorical thought in modern society, by which everything becomes an example of an abstract, and thus nothing individual in its actual specific uniqueness is allowed to exist.
Detailed explanation-2: -Negative Dialectics, Adorno’s magnum opus on epistemology and metaphysics, appeared in 1966. Aesthetic Theory, the other magnum opus on which he had worked throughout the 1960s, appeared posthumously in 1970. He died of a heart attack on August 6, 1969, one month shy of his sixty-sixth birthday.
Detailed explanation-3: -Adorno’s idea of natural history reveals the dynamic, and potentially catastrophic, interaction between nature and history. When philosophy reads nature from history, the idea of natural history becomes “the canon of interpretation for philosophers of history” (ND 359; see also HF 125).