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The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism

The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism

Redfield, Marc

Hardcover

Series: Cultural Memory in the Present

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0804744602
ISBN13: 9780804744607
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jan 30 2003
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.46
Language: English

This book suggests that modern cultural and critical institutions have persistently associated questions of aesthetics and politics with literature, theory, technics, and Romanticism. Its first section examines aesthetic nationalism and the figure of the body, focusing on writings by Benedict Anderson, J. G. Fichte, and Matthew Arnold, and arguing that uneasy acts of aestheticization (of media technology) and abjection (of the maternal body) undergird the production of the national body as imagined community. Subsequent chapters on Paul de Man, Friedrich Schlegel, and Percy Shelley explore the career of the gendered body in the aesthetic tradition and the relationship among aesthetics, technics, politics, and figurative language. The author accounts for the hysteria that has characterized media representations of theory, explains why and how Romanticism has remained a locus of extravagant political hopes and anxieties, and, in a sequence of close readings, uncovers the anaesthetic condition of possibility of the politics of aesthetics.

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