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The inclusion of Adorno in the tradition of the beautiful and his portrayal as a forerunner of Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lyotard\u2019s aesthetics of the sublime are flawed. In other words, artworks would be true not because of what they make apparent or acknowledge as unpresentable but because their enigmatic complexion unleashes a crisis of comprehension that challenges our understanding of the world. A \u201cmaybe\u201d emblematizes the enigma, whose imaginative appropriation remains truer to emancipation than any utopia or dystopia could ever become.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1215\/0094033x-6977805","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,10,17]],"date-time":"2018-10-17T23:36:24Z","timestamp":1539819384000},"page":"73-95","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Truth and Enigma"],"prefix":"10.1215","volume":"45","author":[{"given":"Jo\u00e3o Pedro","family":"Cachopo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]}],"member":"73","reference":[{"key":"2022052112505225100_ngc6977805C1","first-page":"76","article-title":"Commitment","volume-title":"Notes to Literature","author":"Adorno","year":"1991"},{"key":"2022052112505225100_ngc6977805C2","first-page":"109","article-title":"Parataxis: On H\u00f6lderlin\u2019s Late Poetry","volume-title":"Notes to 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