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The Ideology of the Aesthetic

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The Ideology of the Aesthetic presents a history and critique of the concept of the aesthetic throughout modern Western thought.

As such, this is a critical survey of modern Western philosophy, focusing in particular on the complex relations between aesthetics, ethics and politics.

Eagleton provides a brilliant and challenging introduction to these concerns, as characterized in the work of Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Lukacs, Adorno, Habermas, and others.Wide in span, as well as morally and politically committed, this is Terry Eagleton's major work to date.

It forms both an original enquiry and an exemplary introduction.

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Blackwell Publishers
0631163026 / 9780631163022
Paperback / softback
111
01/02/1990
United Kingdom
432 pages
173 x 231 mm, 694 grams
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