Aesthetics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12411325 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin Morgan (0009-0001-1128-7970, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 559-562 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1503 • E-ISSN: 1470-1553 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1060150318000232 |
| OpenAlex | W4248649383 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
A ESTHETICS was the bad object for a surprising diversity of critical traditions in the 1970s and 1980s. Poststructuralists, sociologists, and Marxists all argued that the Enlightenment notion of aesthetic judgment as transhistorically detached from contingency, praxis, and ethics was an expression of bourgeois ideology. 1 Theodor Adorno's dialectical Aesthetic Theory (1970) discerned antinomies rather than pure ideology. The idea of the aesthetic as an autonomous realm of useless activity was surely indefensible from the perspective of historical materialism-but this very idea of aesthetic autonomy refused what Adorno called the "total exchange society" and what we today call neoliberalism. 2 More recently, the tables have turned; critiques of these critiques have given rise to a return to form or to "new formalism," to a burgeoning interest in the affective dimensions of aesthetic experience, and to "neuroaesthetics" as a possible interface of the humanities and the hard sciences. But a shared feature of the critique of and return to aesthetics is that the foundational touchstones are assumed to be German idealism and romanticism, from Alexander Baumgarten to Friedrich Schlegel
Action (physics · Aesthetics · Art · Content (measure theory · Physics · Computer Science · Historical and Scientific Studies · Mathematics
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |