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.
關於作者:
Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John
Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester. His works include
The Ideology of the Aesthetic 1990, Literacy Theory: An
Introduction 1983, Walter Benjamin 1981 and Marxism and
Literacy Criticism 1976.
目錄:
Introduction.
1. Free Particulars.
2. The Law of the Heart: Shaftesbury, Hume, Burke.
3. The Kantian Imaginary.
4. Schiller and Hegemony.
5. The World as Artefact: Fichte, Schelling, Hegel.
6. The Death of Desire: Arthur Schopenhauer.
7. Absolutte Ironies: Sren Kierkegaard.
8. The Marxist Sublime.
9. True Illusions: Friedrich Nietzshe.
10. The Name of the Father: Sigmund Freud.
11. The Politics of Being: Martin Heidegger.
12. The Marxist Rabbi: Walter Benjamin.
13. Art After Auschwitz: Theodor Adorno.
14. From the Polis to Postmodernism.
Index.