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William Egginton - The Theater of Truth. The Ideology of (neo)baroque Aesthetics.  - 9780804769549 - V9780804769549
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The Theater of Truth. The Ideology of (neo)baroque Aesthetics.

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Description for The Theater of Truth. The Ideology of (neo)baroque Aesthetics. hardcover. The Theater of Truth is a book for those interested and engaged in the debates around baroque and neobaroque aesthetics, and offers a unified theory for the relation between these terms and a new vocabulary for distinguishing between their ideological values. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 417.

The Theater of Truth argues that seventeenth-century baroque and twentieth-century neobaroque aesthetics have to be understood as part of the same complex. The Neobaroque, rather than being a return to the stylistic practices of a particular time and place, should be described as the continuation of a cultural strategy produced as a response to a specific problem of thought that has beset Europe and the colonial world since early modernity. This problem, in its simplest philosophical form, concerns the paradoxical relation between appearances and what they represent. Egginton explores expressions of this problem in the art and literature of the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804769549
SKU
V9780804769549
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About William Egginton
William Egginton is Professor and Chair of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of How the World Became a Stage (2003), Perversity and Ethics (Stanford, 2006), A Wrinkle in History (2007), and The Philosopher's Desire (Stanford, 200

Reviews for The Theater of Truth. The Ideology of (neo)baroque Aesthetics.
"William Egginton's latest book undertakes an ambitious synthesis of intellectual traditions in the service of a grand vision of the baroque."
Donald Gilbert- Santamaría
Modern Language Quarterly
"Egginton's book impressively fulfills its ambitious purpose of exploring the baroque as historical period and as style, as well as its relation to the neobaroque and—most importantly—its role as a ... Read more

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