Jurgen Habermas is using some pretty big words. This was my initial reaction. haha.
THE UNTOUCHABLENESS OF COMPLETE AUUTONOMY.
Autonomy means the independence or freedom, as of the will or one's actions, from dictionary.com. "This modernist transformation was all the more painfully realized, the more art alienated itself from life and withdrew into the untouchableness of complete autonomy" (104). I might be wrong, but it sounds as if Habermas was against the free expression of art? The above capitalized phrase really stuck with me when I first read Habermas. I decided it meant not being able to touch upon absolute rule or independent expression. "To retract all criteria and to equate aesthetic judgment with the expression of subjective experiences" (105). I am trying to figure out this idea of negating art as helping art during the Enlightenment period. Is Habermas saying communication and subjective expression help open us to covering all spheres. He says that communication needs a cultural tradition covering all spheres.
By the way this is me writing on the blog to help me figure out what Habermas is trying to say, so sorry if it is all over the place. Surrealist attempted to take down the economic and art sphere. Art started to have more intrinsic value in this era and surrealists didn't like the idea of "art for art's sake". They believed that every piece needed to have some value of didactic function. Which makes you learn morals or something of that nature. Surrealists attempted to blow up with sphere but instead it did nothing. Art was going in that way. This is what I have gotten so far from the "false negation of art."
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