Caspar David Friedrich and the art of kitsch
The German artist, born 250 years ago, and his most famous painting The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog reveal the dangers of heroic politics.
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Peter E Gordon
Peter E Gordon teaches European social theory at Harvard University; his most recent book is A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity, just published in German and English by Suhrkamp Verlag and the University of Chicago Press.
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