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Aesthetic Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos - Literature and Philosophy Singer, Alan (Director of Graduate Studies, Temple University) New edition
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Aesthetic Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos - Literature and Philosophy
Singer, Alan (Director of Graduate Studies, Temple University)
The aesthetic has come to be judged inadequate to literary criticism. It has been attacked for promoting class-based distinctions, cultivating political apathy, and irrational sensuous decadence. This examination of the history of aesthetic theorizing that has led to this critical alienation from works of art proposes an alternative view.
312 pages, 5 illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | December 15, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780271024585 |
| Publishers | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Pages | 312 |
| Dimensions | 155 × 231 × 24 mm · 472 g |