num_pages: 432
description: "The Ideology of the Aesthetic" presents a history &amp; critique of the concept of the aesthetic throughout modern Western thought. As such, this is a critical survey of modern Western philosophy, focusing in particular on the complex relations between aesthetics, ethics &amp; politics. Eagleton provides a brilliant &amp; challenging introduction to these concerns, as characterized in the work of Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Lukacs, Adorno, Habermas &amp; others. Wide in span, as well as morally &amp; politically committed, this is his major work to date. It forms both an original enquiry &amp; an exemplary introduction.
language: English
title: The Ideology of the Aesthetic
titlecomplete: The Ideology of the Aesthetic
genres: Art, Philosophy, Cultural, Literature, Criticism, Theory, Social Science, Nonfiction, History, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 314
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize
publisher: Basil Blackwell (Cambridge, MA/Oxford)