Author

Publication

2003-10-01 - Pennsylvania State University Press

Language

English

Word Count

75,500 words, Guess

Page Count

302 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing1251804

Classifications

  • LCCBH91.S56 2003

Description

"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.

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  • Aesthetic Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos (Literature and Philosophy)HardcoverPennsylvania State University Press2003-10-01

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