Synaesthesia and the Gesamtkunstwerk | Lecture by Susan Bernstein
Date: June 2, 2016
Time: 4pm
Venue: Room 2.10, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon
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“Synaesthesia and the Gesamtkunstwerk” considers the question of the unity of the senses and the arts in Jean-Luc Nancy, Th. Adorno and Richard Wagner. Nancy and Adorno show how synaesthesia articulates difference rather than simply establishing a unity as is commonly understood. Wagner in contrast aims at a synthetic unity as the goal or end of the Artwork of the Future — the Gesamtkunstwerk — a goal that is suspended in both Adorno and Nancy in a model of purposiveness without purpose. Susan Bernstein is Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies at Brown University. This lecture is part of the Interarts Seminar (PhD Programme in Comparative Studies – PHDCOMP) and involves the collaboration of THELEME group, Music and Literature project . |