Table of Contents

1. Weber: the Value-Sphere of Art 2. Kant: the Inner Workings of the Sphere of Art 3. Hegel: Art and the End of History 4. Adorno1: Truth, Beauty and Utopia 5. Adorno 11: Purpose, Disenchantment and Suffering 6. Bourdieu: Distinction and the Game of Art 7. Conclusion Bibliography

About the Author

Michael Symonds is Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Sociology in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, Australia. He is the author of Max Weber's Theory of Modernity and the co-author of Home, Displacement, Belonging.