Aesthetic Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos

The aesthetic has come to be judged inadequate to literary criticism. It has been attacked for promoting class-based distinctions, cultivating political apathy, and irrational sensuous decadence. This examination of the history of aesthetic theorizing that has led to this critical alienation from works of art proposes an alternative view.

• | By (Author): Alan Singer (Director of Graduate Studies, Temple University) (Author)
• | Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 15, 2003
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 312 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 0271024585
• | ISBN-13: 9780271024585