Romanticism, Aesthetics, and Nationalism

ISBN-13: 9780521630009 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 172 str.

David Aram Kaiser

Opis

This ambitious and original study explores the connections between aesthetic theory and political theory from the era of Romanticism to the twentieth century. David Kaiser traces these ideas through Schiller and Coleridge, Arnold, Mill and Ruskin, to Adorno and Habermas. He analyzes the problems that contemporary literary theory faces in attempting to connect the aesthetic and political spheres, and suggests that we rethink the aesthetic sphere in order to regain that connection.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Modernity, subjectivity, liberalism, and nationalism; 2. The symbol and the aesthetic sphere; 3. Schiller's aesthetic state; 4. Symbol, state, and clerisy: the aesthetic politics of Coleridge; 5. The best self and the private self: Matthew Arnold on culture and the state; 6. Aesthetic kingship and queenship: Ruskin on the state and the home; 7. The aesthetic and political spheres in contemporary theory: Adorno and Habermas.