The Ideology of the Aesthetic

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by Terry Eagleton

Blackwell Publishers

Due/Published April 1990, 426 pages, paper

ISBN 0631163026

The author seeks to "trace the relationship between aesthetics and political interests from the Enlightenment through post-modernism. . . . While starting with Shaftesbury, Hume, and Burke, he is primarily concerned with the contribution of the German philosophical tradition. He is especially interested in the Hegelians from Hegel and Marx to Benjamin, Adorno, and Habermas, and the anti-Hegelians from Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche to Heidegger and Foucault." (Libr J) Index.