| The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism Contributor(s): Redfield, Marc (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804744602 ISBN-13: 9780804744607 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2003 Annotation: "This is a remarkable book of penetrating intelligence. Through a series of deft readings, Redfield shows us how the aesthetic is always entangled in lines of forces beyond art proper. He charts expertly how this works in key texts of the Romantic period, all the while demonstrating powerfully that what we call Romanticism is by no means simply a thing of the past." --Ian Balfour, York University "Redfield's indispensible book casts new and important light on what impedes modernity in the region of the aesthetic, and, by its brilliant example, demonstrates what comes of responding to that occlusion with an ethics of reading."--Studies in Romanticism" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Philosophy | Political |
| Dewey: 111.85 |
| LCCN: 2002015100 |
| Series: Cultural Memory in the Present |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.06" W x 9.46" (1.10 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book suggests that modern cultural and critical institutions have persistently associated questions of aesthetics and politics with literature, theory, technics, and Romanticism. Its first section examines aesthetic nationalism and the figure of the body, focusing on writings by Benedict Anderson, J. G. Fichte, and Matthew Arnold, and arguing that uneasy acts of aestheticization (of media technology) and abjection (of the maternal body) undergird the production of the national body as "imagined community." Subsequent chapters on Paul de Man, Friedrich Schlegel, and Percy Shelley explore the career of the gendered body in the aesthetic tradition and the relationship among aesthetics, technics, politics, and figurative language. The author accounts for the hysteria that has characterized media representations of theory, explains why and how Romanticism has remained a locus of extravagant political hopes and anxieties, and, in a sequence of close readings, uncovers the "anaesthetic" condition of possibility of the politics of aesthetics. |