Aesthetic TheoryTheodor Adornos famous aesthetic theory was not merely a theory of the aesthetic; it also made a wider claim about the aesthetic implications of all theory. At the same time we have to deal with aesthetic objects and events in which an aesthetic theory is inherent, which show themselves as art. From both sidestheory and aestheticsa link can be made to the etymological meaning of theria, which understands the theoretical as a seeing or perspective.