Wacyl Azzouz
PhD candidatePhD candidate
Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät
eikones – Zentrum für die Theorie und Geschichte des Bildes
PhD candidate
Rheinsprung 9/11
4051
Basel
Schweiz
Tel. +41 61 207 18 22
wacyl.azzouz@clutterunibas.ch
Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät
PhD candidate
Curriculum Vitae
Wacyl Azzouz studied sociology, social and political theory and philosophy in Zurich, Innsbruck, Bucharest and Tübingen. He has been a member of the eikones Graduate School since 2017. His primary research interests lie in aesthetics, critical theory and political philosophy. He is currently working on Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory.
Current project
In the Shadow of the Identical:
Theodor W. Adorno's Concept of the Work of Art in the Aesthetic Theory between Ontology and Theory of the Subject.
Azzouz’s dissertation project deals with Theodor W. Adorno’s concept of the work of art in the AestheticTheory. At the centre of the work is the question of the concept of the work of art and its position in respect to the relationship between subject and object. In doing so the project follows the thesis that Adorno’s concept of the work of art cannot be grasped in an ontology of the work of art, nor dissolved in a theory of aesthetic experience. Rather, Adorno’s concept of the work of art lies in the failure of both.
