The Ideology of the Aesthetic

About this book

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 Eagletons major work to date. It forms both an original enquiry and an exemplary introduction.