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I am participating in the 23rd International Congress of Aesthetics at the University of Prešov, Slovakia, from July 20th to 24th. On Thursday, July 23rd, 2026, between 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM, I will be on a panel to present the paper below." “What Times Are These?”: Adorno’s Aesthetics in the Debate on Poetry and Nature Luciana Molina, Charles University, Czech Republic luciana.molinaqueiroz@ff.cuni.cz The intention of this paper is to investigate possible contributions of the

Many are quick to denounce the decline of fiction in our present times. The production of nonfiction, however, deserves scrutiny. There is a genre of books invading the Brazilian publishing market and, possibly, the market worldwide: entertainment essayism. Before long, if things continue this way, it may even become a category at the Jabuti Prize. Very soon—if one still retains some faith in humanity—people may realize that there is a difference between essayism as thought a