Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xl, 283 pages)
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Illustrationen, Porträts
Ausgabe:
2014
ISBN:
9781350024243
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9781350024212
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9781350024236
Inhalt:
"The whole of Marx's project confronts the narrow concerns of political philosophy by embedding it in social philosophy and a certain understanding of the aesthetic. From those of aesthetic production to the "poetry of the future" (as Marx writes in the Eighteenth Brumaire), from the radical modernism of bourgeois development to the very idea of association (which defined one of the main lines of tradition in the history of aesthetics), steady references to Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe, and the idea that bourgeois politics is nothing but a theatrical stage: the aesthetic has a prominent place in the constellation of Marx's thought. This book offers an original and challenging study of both Marx in the aesthetic, and the aesthetic in Marx. It differs from previous discussions of Marxist aesthetic theory as it understands the works of Marx themselves as contributions to thinking the aesthetic. This is an engagement with Marx's aesthetic that takes into account Marx's broader sense of the aesthetic, as identified by Eagleton and Buck-Morss - as a question of sense perception and the body. It explores this through questions of style and substance in Marx and extends it into contemporary questions of how this legacy can be perceived or directed analytically in the present. By situating Marx in contemporary art debates this volume speaks directly to lively interest today in the function of the aesthetic in accounts of emancipatory politics and is essential reading for researchers and academics across the fields of political philosophy, art theory, and Marxist scholarship This book's concern with Marx and aesthetics is twofold; it addresses both the aesthetic implications of Marx's writings and the artistic interest in Marx. Marx's own writings not only contain various conceptions of emancipation strongly inspired by classical aesthetics, but Marx's own style shows a strong sense of awareness for the performative politics of writing. Readings of Marx that focus on these aspects echo some of the recent returns to Marx in response to the crises and contradictions of contemporary capitalism. The particularity of this renewed interest in Marx, however, also marks a significant departure from the party lines of Marxist scholarship. This book, by focusing on these trends, proposes a model of reading Marx as an author whose work circles less around political economy in a narrow sense, but rather around the aesthetic: emphasizing the sensuous, the material, the formal, ...
Inhalt:
Section I. Aesthetics/Emancipations -- Section II. Style and performativity in Marx -- Section III. Modes of artistic production
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781350024229
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Aesthetic Marx London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 ISBN 1350024228
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781350024229
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781350074712
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen
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Politologie
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Philosophie
Schlagwort(e):
Marx, Karl 1818-1883
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Ästhetik
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Marx, Karl 1818-1883
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Ästhetik
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.5040/9781350024243
Mehr zum Autor:
Hartle, Johan Frederik 1976-
Mehr zum Autor:
Marx, Karl 1818-1883
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