Whether it still is possible: Literature on Auschwitz in Adorno's aesthetic theory. To show how Auschwitz is at the center of Aesthetic Theory and the notes to the literature, especially Adorno's spelling as criticism and memory is interpreted by representation. The realization of the Shoah is thereby sought in voids, forms of parody, hyperbole and especially in the equivocations, in which the possibility of philosophy and art after Auschwitz is negotiated. Thus it is shown that words such as "no man's land", "idiosyncrasy" or "allergy to the aura", containing in itself the antithesis of utopia and catastrophe, in Adorno's to a concept of art beyond the reconciliation in the name of "positive rational "(Hegel) or the dedicated art (Brecht, Benjamin) refer. In-depth analysis of the essays Adorno to Hölderlin, Kafka, Brecht and Beckett an aesthetics of memory is reconstructed, which resists the suppression of the Holocaust. - from Amzon