{"product_id":"radical-aesthetic-9780631220534","title":"RADICAL AESTHETIC","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProvides a severe critique of the contemporary anti-aesthetic movement.  Points to the democratic and radical potential of the aesthetic.   Forges an alternative aesthetic discourse.   Draws upon a wide range of theorists and philosophers, and uses a variety of literary and artistic examples to reinforce the argument.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: A Case for Rethinking the Category of the Aesthetic. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Hermeneutics of Suspicion and the 'Problem' of the Aesthetic:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Cultural Materialism and Culturalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Aesthetic and the Polis: Marxist Deconstruction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Writing from the Broken Middle - Post Structuralist Deconstruction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Poetics of Emotion:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Textual Harassment: the ideology of close reading, or how close is close?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Thinking Affect.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Cultural Capital, Value and a Democratic Aesthetics:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Beyond the Pricing Principle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. And Beauty? A Dialogue.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Feminism and Aesthetic Practice:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Debating Feminisms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Women's Space: Echo, Caesura, Echo.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403434991959,"sku":"9780631220534","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631220534.jpg?v=1730483465","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/radical-aesthetic-9780631220534","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}