A Return to Aesthetics: Autonomy, Indifference, and Postmodernism

By Jonathan Loesberg

Book Overview

A Return to Aesthetics confronts postmodernism's rejection of aesthetics by showing that this critique rests on central concepts of classical aesthetic theory, namely autonomous form, disinterest, and symbolic discourse.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804751161
• ISBN13: 9780804751162
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"