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The philosophy and politics of aesthetic experience : German romanticism and critical theory / Nathan Ross.
Van Pelt Library B2748.R64 .R67 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ross, Nathan, author.
- Series:
- Political philosophy and public purpose
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romanticism--Germany.
- Romanticism.
- Germany.
- Aesthetics, German--19th century.
- Aesthetics, German.
- Aesthetics, German--20th century.
- Critical theory.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 253 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Aesthetic semblance and play as responses to the disfigurement of human social existence in Schiller's Aesthetic education
- Aesthetic experience at the limits of thought in Hölderlin's New letters on aesthetic education
- The endless pursuit of universal sense in Friedrich Schlegel's political and aesthetic thought
- Walter Benjamin's philosophy of critical experience: from the romantic artwork to the disillusioning of mimesis
- Aesthetic truth as the mimesis of false consciousness in Adorno's Aesthetic theory
- Conclusion: the Benjamin-Adorno debate on the nature of aesthetic experience.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 3319523031
- 9783319523033
- OCLC:
- 966592708
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