(P/B) THE IDEOLOGY OF THE AESTHETIC

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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. (From the publisher)

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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