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Jonathan Loesberg - A Return to Aesthetics: Autonomy, Indifference, and Postmodernism - 9780804751155 - V9780804751155
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A Return to Aesthetics: Autonomy, Indifference, and Postmodernism

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Description for A Return to Aesthetics: Autonomy, Indifference, and Postmodernism Hardback. A Return to Aesthetics confronts postmodernism's rejection of aesthetics by showing that this critique rests on central concepts of classical aesthetic theory, namely autonomous form, disinterest, and symbolic discourse. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 517.

A Return to Aesthetics confronts postmodernism's rejection of aesthetics by showing that this critique rests on central concepts of classical aesthetic theory, namely autonomous form, disinterest, and symbolic discourse. The author argues for the value of these concepts by recovering them through a historical reinterpretation of their meaning prior to their distortion by twentieth-century formalism. Loesberg then applies these concepts to a discussion of two of the most significant critics of the ideology of Enlightenment, Foucault and Bourdieu. He argues that understanding the role of aesthetics in the postmodern critique of Enlightenment will get us out of the intellectual impasse ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804751155
SKU
V9780804751155
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About Jonathan Loesberg
Jonathan Loesberg is Professor of Literature at American University. He is the author of two previous books: Fictions of Consciousness: Mill, Newman, and the Reading of Victorian Prose (1986) and Aestheticism and Deconstruction: Pater, Derrida, and De Man (1991).

Reviews for A Return to Aesthetics: Autonomy, Indifference, and Postmodernism
"A Return to Aesthetics offers a fresh and interesting approach to the classical concepts of the aesthetic theory, namely autonomous form."
Consciousness, Literature and the Arts "...this is a forward-looking and vital contribution to aesthetics. In a convincing account, which masterfully links careful historical analysis with contemporary debate, Loesberg offers what is badly needed: a way out and beyond ... Read more

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