Louis Hartnoll is a lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy.

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Fields of interest

Critical Theory; Aesthetics; Philosophy of Art; German Idealism.

Research

Foremost, my work concerns a philosophical assessment of the social character of art in Theodor W. Adorno's posthumous magnum opus Aesthetic Theory (1970), extending this to recent accounts of developments within the visual arts.

Grants and awards

2020 DAAD One-Year Research Grant
2017 AHRC–Techne Doctoral Scholarship
2017 CRMEP Dissertation Prize in Aesthetics and Art Theory
2015 CRMEP Postgraduate Scholarship
2012 Socrates–Erasmus Postgraduate Scholarship

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. L.C. (Louis) Hartnoll completed an AHRC-funded PhD on Theodor W. Adorno’s philosophy and social theory at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London under the supervision of Prof. Peter Osborne, Prof. Howard Caygill, and, whilst a visiting researcher at the Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt, Prof. Juliane Rebentisch. He studied aesthetics, art theory, philosophy, and visual cultures at the University of the Arts London, Goldsmiths, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and the CRMEP and has lectured at Central Saint Martins, Columbia University, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, and, most recently, at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig. Among other things, he has published and lectured on the work of Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Alexander Kluge, Siegfried Kracauer, and Alfred Sohn-Rethel. He currently works as a Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Groningen and as Associate Editor at Historical Materialism.