Description: Dialectics of Aesthetic Agency : Revaluating German Aesthetics from Kant to Adorno, Paperback by Maharaj, Ayon, ISBN 1472579593, ISBN-13 9781472579591, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
This study examines how key figures in the German aesthetic tradition — Kant, Schelling, Friedrich Schlegel, Hegel, and Adorno — attempted to think through the powers and limits of art in post-Enlightenment modernity. Ayon Maharaj argues that the aesthetic speculations of these thinkers provide the conceptual resources for a timely dialectical defense of "aesthetic agency"— arts capacity to make available uniquely valuable modes of experience that escape the purview of Enlightenment scientific rationality.
Blending careful philosophical analysis with an intellectual historians attention to the broader cultural resonance of philosophical arguments, Maharaj has two interrelated aims. He provides challenging new interpretations of the aesthetic philosophies of Kant, Schelling, Schlegel, Hegel, and Adorno by focusing on aspects of their thought that have been neglected or misunderstood in Anglo-American and German scholarship. He demonstrates that their subtle investigations into the nature and scope of aesthetic agency have far-reaching implications for contemporary discourse on the arts. The Dialectics of Aesthetic Agency is an important and original contribution to scholarship on the German aesthetic tradition and to the broader field of aesthetics.
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Book Title: Dialectics of Aesthetic Agency : Revaluating German Aesthetics fr
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Name: Dialectics of Aesthetic Agency : Revaluating German Aesthetics from Kant to Adorno
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Subject: Aesthetics
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 0.5 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 11.7 Oz
Subject Area: Philosophy
Author: Ayon Maharaj
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
