Critique of Taste

by Galvano Della Volpe

Book Overview

Galvano Della Volpe was the dominant philosopher of Italian Marxism for twenty years after the Liberation. His most important book was a work of aesthetic theory-- Critique of Taste . Della Volpe, proponent of a robust materialism in all his writings, was concerned to rehabilitate the inherently rational and intellectual nature of art. Opposing both the sociological reductionism of Plekhanov or Lukács, and the formalist irrationalism of Croce or New...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860915654
• ISBN13: 9780860915652
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"