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Metaphysical Elements in the Aesthetics of Benjamin, Adorno, and Horkheimer

Many well-known works in twentieth-century continental aesthetics, such as Martin Heidegger's "Origin of the Work of Art," Jacques Derrida's The Truth in Painting, Michel Foucault's "Las Meninas," and the two most influential Frankfurt School texts on aesthetics, Walter Benjamin's optimistic "The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility"¹ and Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer's pessimistic "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,"² treat aesthetics as an occasion for a critique of metaphysics. Hence, it is reasonable to assess these works by reference to whether they retain metaphysical categories, concepts, or methodologies. In this regard, the essays...