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  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: WileyBlackwell (1 Feb 1990)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0631163026
  • ISBN-13: 978-0631163022
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"That contemporary theory would eventually turn back to consider its origins in the contradictions of philosophical aesthetics was predictable; but nothing could have prepared us for Eagleton′s extraordinary confrontation with the entire modern history of this discourse, in a book which will be indispensable for years to come."
F. R. Jameson, Duke University

"Eagleton succeeds brilliantly in situating aesthetic theory as an irreducibly heterogeneous series of discourses who ideological and political effect on North Atlantic civilization since the Englightenment has been more diverse and consequential than traditional philosophical, literary, and cultural theory has previously suspected or acknowledged."
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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars eagleton's best..., 9 Nov 2006
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...from what I've read of his. I was surprised to see this remained without comment. I've read a fair bit of Eagleton and, although this is not a particularly original work - consisting as it does of accounts of how various philosphers have approached "the aesthetic" - it serves as an excellent introduction to the History of Philosophy from an interesting perspective. This perspective is that of a "cultural marxist" analysing approaches to art and art theory as they have moved Kant, Schelling and others. I read it quite a while ago, so my recall is a bit scanty - but I remember considering it kin to the equally impressive Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt (which is also not so much an original work as a masterfully narrative of philosophy).
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