Aesthetic reason: artworks and the deliberative ethos
Auteur :
Singer, Alan
Éditeur :
Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN :
9780271024585
Date de publication :
15 déc. 2003
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,2 cm
Poids :
481 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
The aesthetic has come to be judged inadequate to literary criticism. It has been attacked for promoting class-based distinctions, cultivating political apathy, and irrational sensuous decadence. This examination of the history of aesthetic theorizing that has led to this critical alienation from works of art proposes an alternative view.