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Paperback Aesthetic Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos Book

ISBN: 0271024585

ISBN13: 9780271024585

Aesthetic Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos

(Part of the Literature and Philosophy Series)

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In recent years the category of the aesthetic has been judged inadequate to the tasks of literary criticism. It has been attacked for promoting class-based ideologies of distinction, for cultivating political apathy, and for indulging irrational sensuous decadence. Aesthetic Reason reexamines the history of aesthetic theorizing that has led to this critical alienation from works of art and proposes an alternative view. The book is a defense...

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