Main entry:

Eagleton, Terry, 1943-

Title & Author:

The ideology of the aesthetic / Terry Eagleton.

Publication:

Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell, 1990.

Description:

426 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Free particulars -- Law of the heart : Shaftesbury, Hume, Burke -- Kantian imaginary -- Schiller and hegemony -- World as artefact : Fichte, Schelling, Hegel -- Death of desire : Arthur Schopenhauer -- Absolute ironies : Søren Kierkegaard -- Marxist sublime -- True illusions : Friedrich Nietzsche -- Name of the father : Sigmund Freud -- Politics of being : Martin Heidegger -- Marxist rabbi : Walter Benjamin -- Art after Auschwitz : Theodor Adorno -- From the Polis to postmodernism.

Summary:

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 -- Bookseller's description.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0631163018
9780631163015
0631163026 (pbk.)
9780631163022 (pbk.)

Subject:

Aesthetics, Modern.
Aesthetics.
Esthétique.
Esthetica.
Vesten.
Moderne filosofi.
Estetikk.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283394
Call No.: BIB 221535
Status: Available