The Ideology of the Aesthetic by Terry Eagleton

The Ideology of the Aesthetic by Terry Eagleton

A survey of modern Western philosophy, focusing on the relations between aesthetics, ethics and politics, which aims to be a critique of the concept of the aesthetic throughout modern Western thought.

That contemporary theory would eventually turn back to consider its origins in the contradictions of philosophical aesthetics was predictable; but nothing could have prepared us for Eagleton's extraordinary confrontation with the entire modern history of this discourse, in a book which will be indispensable for years to comeF. R. Jameson, Duke University Eagleton succeeds brilliantly in situating aesthetic theory as an irreducibly heterogeneous series of discourses who ideological and political effect on North Atlantic civilization since the Englightenment has been more diverse and consequential than traditional philosophical, literary, and cultural theory has previously suspected or acknowledged. Choice

Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester. His works include The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990), Literacy Theory: An Introduction (1983), Walter Benjamin (1981) and Marxism and Literacy Criticism (1976).

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ISBN 13	9780631163022
ISBN 10	0631163026
Title	The Ideology of the Aesthetic
Author	Terry Eagleton
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	1990-02-01
Number of pages	432
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