Aesthetic Reason

"In recent years the category of the aesthetic has been judged inadequate to the tasks of literary criticism. It has been attacked for promoting class-based ideologies of distinction, for cultivating political apathy, and for indulging irrational sensuous decadence. Aesthetic Reason reexamines the history of aesthetic theorizing that has led to this critical alienation from works of art and proposes an alternative view. The book is a defense of the relevance and usefulness of the aesthetic as a cognitive resource of human experience. It challenges the contemporary critical tendency to treat aesthetic value as separate from the realms of human agency and sociopolitical change."--Jacket.

שנה

2003

שפה

English

הוצאה

Pennsylvania State University Press

מהדורות

2

עמודים

302

ISBN

9780271023120

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata