Apresentação de comunicação: “What Times Are These?”: Adorno’s Aesthetics in the Debate on Poetry and Nature (ICA 2026 Aesthetics Today)

Participo do 23 International Congress of Aesthetics na University of Prešov, Eslováquia, entre 20 e 24/07.

Na quinta-feira, 23/07/2026, entre 11:00 – 13:00, estarei na em uma mesa para apresentar o trabalho abaixo.

“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 phi-losopher Theodor W. Adorno to the field of Ecocriticism in relation to Literature and Arts. The investigation focuses on reading Dialectic of Enlightenment, Aes-thetic Theory, and the essay “On Lyric Poetry and Society”. The hypothesis relies on the idea that, complementing the reflection on the Enlightenment tendency toward the domination of nature, Adorno develops, especially in the essay “On Lyric Poetry and Society”, a dialectic of nature approached through art: in epic poetry, which has a more political sense, it is possible to observe the explicit concern about the destruction of nature; on the other hand, lyric poetry regularly idealizes a state of untouched nature, in which humans are not in conflict but actually in a harmonic relation with it. Another aim of the paper is to analyse historical chang- es regarding the relation between art and nature from Adorno’s perspective, such as the long line that connects Greek epic - Odyssey, for instance - and the political poetry of today. To this end, the intertextuality between poems by Bertolt Brecht,

Paul Celan, and Adrienne Rich will also be explored.