The Ideology of the Aesthetic

"The Ideology of the Aesthetic" presents a history & 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 & politics. Eagleton provides a brilliant & challenging introduction to these concerns, as characterized in the work of Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Lukacs, Adorno, Habermas & others. Wide in span, as well as morally & politically committed, this is his major work to date. It forms both an original enquiry & an exemplary introduction.

• Author
• Terry Eagleton

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 432

• Publisher
• Basil Blackwell (Cambridge, MA/Oxford)

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780631163022

• Genres
• philosophy, art, theory, criticism, literature, history, politics

• Release date
• 1991