The Ideology of the Aesthetic

'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.'
(excerpt from back cover)

Access level

Onsite

author

Terry EAGLETON

publisher

Blackwell (Malden, United States)

Location code

REF.EAT2

Language

English

Keyword

aesthetics

Publication/Creation date

1990

No of pages

426

ISBN / ISSN

9780631163022

No of copies

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

1 Free Particulars

2 The Law of the Heart: Shaftesbury, Hume, Burke

3 The Kantian Imaginary

4 Schiller and Hegemony

5 The World as Artefact: Fichte, Schelling, Hegel

6 The Death of Desire: Arthur Schopenhauer

7 Absolute Ironies: Soren Kierkegaard

8 Te Marxist Sublime

9 True Illusions: Friedrich Nietzsche

10 The Name of the Father: Sigmund Freud

11 The Politics of Being: Martin Heidegger

12 The Marxist Rabbi: Walter Benjamin

13 Art after Auschwitz: Theodor Adorno

14 From the Polis to Postmodernism

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