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Abstract:
The idea of risk, of the willingness to be exposed to the possibility of total failure, is a core value of Adorno's philosophical and aesthetic modernism. This willingness to be exposed to risk is also a quality that Adorno associates most strongly, in aesthetics, with Deweyan pragmatism. Against tendencies to assume an irreconcilability of critical theory and pragmatism, this essay ventures that an appreciation of Adorno's acknowledgement of Dewey in his Aesthetic Theory would mean considering that it is in Dewey that Adorno might have found the closest exemplar of the dialectical, experimental freedom that he desired for his aesthetics.
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