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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.

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"A Return to Aesthetics offers a fresh and interesting approach to the classical concepts of the aesthetic theory, namely autonomous form." -- Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
"...this is a forward-looking and vital contribution to aesthetics. In a convincing account, which masterfully links careful historical analysis with contemporary debate, Loesberg offers what is badly needed: a way out and beyond the ideological impasse between the alleged foundationalism of aesthetics and the supposed anti-aesthetics of postmodernism." -- British Journal of Aesthetics

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@fmct:Contents @toc4:Introduction 1 @toc2:Chapter I Aesthetics and the Argument From Design 00 Chapter II Indifferent Embodiment 00 Chapter III Foucault's Aesthetics 000 Chapter IV Bourdieu's Aesthetics 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Bibliography 000

A Return to Aesthetics

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      Publisher Stanford University Press
      Published 27 July 2005
      ISBN-13 9780804751162
      978-0804751162
      ISBN-10 0804751161

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "A Return to Aesthetics offers a fresh and interesting approach to the classical concepts of the aesthetic theory, namely autonomous form." -- Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
      "...this is a forward-looking and vital contribution to aesthetics. In a convincing account, which masterfully links careful historical analysis with contemporary debate, Loesberg offers what is badly needed: a way out and beyond the ideological impasse between the alleged foundationalism of aesthetics and the supposed anti-aesthetics of postmodernism." -- British Journal of Aesthetics

      Table of Contents
      @fmct:Contents @toc4:Introduction 1 @toc2:Chapter I Aesthetics and the Argument From Design 00 Chapter II Indifferent Embodiment 00 Chapter III Foucault's Aesthetics 000 Chapter IV Bourdieu's Aesthetics 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Bibliography 000

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