This long-awaited volume by one of the major figures of twentieth-century thought represents perhaps the most provocative, serious, and important rethinking of “ideology” since the publication of Althusser's essays in the 1960s and 1970s. Aesthetic Ideology offers the definitive resource to de Man's thoughts on philosophy, politics, and history. The core of Aesthetic Ideology i...(展开全部)

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...(展开全部)

Theodor Adorno (1903-69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School, the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US in the 1930s, including such thinkers as Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer. His work has proved enormously influential in sociology, philosophy and cultural theory. Aesthetic Theory is Adorno's posthumous magnum opus and the culmin...(展开全部)

Perhaps the most important aesthetics of the twentieth century appears here newly translated, in English that is for the first time faithful to the intricately demanding language of the original German. The culmination of a lifetime of aesthetic investigation, Aesthetic Theory is Theodor W. Adorno's magnum opus, the clarifying lens through which the whole of his work is best vi...(展开全部)

Perhaps the most important aesthetics of the twentieth century appears here newly translated, in English that is for the first time faithful to the intricately demanding language of the original German. The culmination of a lifetime of aesthetic investigation, Aesthetic Theory is Theodor W. Adorno's magnum opus, the clarifying lens through which the whole of his work is best vi...(展开全部)

In the wake of radical social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, literary studies’ embrace of politics entailed a widespread rejection of aesthetic considerations. For scholars invested in literature’s role in supporting or challenging dominant ideologies, appreciating literature’s formal beauty seemed frivolous and irresponsible, even complicit with the iniquities of the social...(展开全部)

李泽厚，湖南长沙人，北京大学哲学系一九五四年毕业。中国社会科学院研究员、教授。一九八八年当选国巴黎国际哲学院院士，一九九八年获美国科罗拉多学院人文学荣誉博士学位。著有《批判哲学的批判——康德述评》、《我的哲学提纲》、《中国〈古代、近代、现代〉思想史论》、《美学论集》、《美的历程》、《华夏美学》、《美学四讲》、《走我自己的路》、《世纪新梦》、《论语今读》、《已卯五说》等书。

A spirited & severe critique of the turn to an anti-aesthetic in writing including examples from: Blake & Wordsworth to Clint Eastwood. From the Inside Flap This ground-breaking new work offers a spirited and severe critique of the turn to an anti-aesthetic in theoretical writing and asserts that it has now become an intellectual necessity to rethink the aesthetic and remake ae...(展开全部)

特里·伊格尔顿：英国当代马克思主义理论家、文学批评家。曾任教于剑桥大学，又长期担任牛津大学凯瑟琳学院沃顿英文和文学理论讲座教授，后任教于曼彻斯特大学、圣母大学。代表性著作有《批评与意识形态》《沃尔特·本雅明：或走向革命批评》《文学理论导论》《美学意识形态》《文化的观念》《唯物主义》《论文化》等。 段吉方：华东师范大学文学院教授，主要从事文艺学、美学、马克思主义文艺理论研究。出版专著有《意识形态与审美话语——伊格尔顿文学批评理论研究》《文化唯物主义与现代美学问题——20世纪英国马克思主义文学批评理论范式与经验研究》等。 穆宝清：山东大学外国语学院副教授，英国伦敦国王学院访问学者，主要研究方向为西方文论、艺术美学。近期著作有《贡布里希艺术美学思想研究》《社会学阐释与文学想象：齐格蒙特?鲍曼论后现代消费社会》等。

Works do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal investments (including the political kind). It is a process that sorts incommensurabilities and registers contradictions (which is not the same as solving them!) The inevitable and welcome conflict of interpretations - a discursive, ideological struggle - therefore needs to be supplemented by a...(展开全部)