Aesthetic Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos

by Alan Singer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271024585
• ISBN13: 9780271024585
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"