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atelic (en)

the quality of a verb that shows that an action is incomplete

Aesthetics and Politics
by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

Aesthetics and Politics
by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

Aesthetics and Politics
by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin


Cultural conservatives who demand that a work of art should say something, join forces with their political opponents against atelic, hermetic works of art.

—p.179 Commitment (177) by Theodor W. Adorno
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