A Return to Aesthetics Autonomy, Indifference, and Postmodernism
A Return to Aesthetics: Autonomy, Indifference, and Postmodernism by Jonathan Loesberg, published by Stanford University Press in 2005, offers a critical examination of postmodernism’s stance on aesthetics. This 289-page work delves into the rejection of aesthetic principles, arguing that such critiques are rooted in classical aesthetic theory concepts like autonomous form and disinterest. Loesberg aims to recover these ideas through a historical lens, providing insights into their significance before they were reshaped by twentieth-century formalism.
Readers will find a thorough discussion that connects these aesthetic concepts to the critiques of Enlightenment ideology presented by influential thinkers such as Foucault and Bourdieu. By framing postmodern critiques as instances of aesthetic reseeing, Loesberg proposes a fresh perspective on the ongoing debates surrounding postmodernism and Enlightenment thought. This edition is presented in English and spans dimensions of 9 inches in height and 6 inches in length, making it a substantial addition to the fields of philosophy and aesthetics.
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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. The author argues for the value of these concepts by recovering them through a historical reinterpretation of their meaning prior to their distortion by twentieth-century formalism. Loesberg then applies these concepts to a discussion of two of the most significant critics of the ideology of Enlightenment, Foucault and Bourdieu. He argues that understanding the role of aesthetics in the postmodern critique of Enlightenment will get us out of the intellectual impasse wherein numbingly repeated attacks upon postmodernism as self-contradictory match numbingly repeated defenses. Construing postmodern critiques as examples of aesthetic reseeing gives us a new understanding of the postmodern critique of the Enlightenment.
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