An edition of Beyond aesthetics (1992)

Beyond aesthetics

confrontations with poststructuralism and postmodernism

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An edition of Beyond aesthetics (1992)

Beyond aesthetics

confrontations with poststructuralism and postmodernism

Jacques Derrida, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard and Geoffrey Hartman all claim to have found a way to transcend value judgment. This book confronts these assertions and argues that tinkers such as these have, by their rejection of conventional methods of constructing value judgments, succeeded in problematizing the entire area of aesthetics. Stuart Sim treats posttructuralism and postmodernism as forms of anti-aesthetics and contextualises the movements within a longer-running tradition of anti-foundationalism and radical skepticism in Western philosophy. Arguing from a broadly socialist, historical materialist position he demands that discourses be made to declare their ideological commitments. While the radical skepticism of Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard, and their followers is shown to be ultimately philosophically unsustainable and ideologically suspect form a left-wing point of view, Sim concludes that these critics nevertheless point to a need for reassessment of methods and objectives among critical theorists on the left.

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English
Pages
181

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Cover of: Beyond Aesthetics
Beyond Aesthetics: Confrontations With Postructuralism and Postmodernism (Theory/Culture)
January 1993, University of Toronto Press
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Beyond Aesthetics
Beyond Aesthetics: Confrontations With Postructuralism and Postmodernism (Theory/Culture)
January 1993, Univ of Toronto Pr
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Beyond Aesthetics
Beyond Aesthetics
August 1, 1992, Prentice-Hall, Pearson Professional Education
Paperback in English
Cover of: Beyond aesthetics
Beyond aesthetics: confrontations with poststructuralism and postmodernism
1992, Harvester Wheatsheaf
in English
Cover of: Beyond aesthetics
Beyond aesthetics: confrontations with poststructuralism and postmodernism
1992, University of Toronto Press
in English
Cover of: Beyond aesthetics
Beyond aesthetics: confrontations with poststructuralism and postmoderism
1992, Harvester Wheatsheaf
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
Toronto, Buffalo
Series
Theory/culture series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
111/.85/0904
Library of Congress
BH201 .S49 1992, BH201.S49 1992

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 181 p. ;
Number of pages
181

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1454532M
Internet Archive
beyondaesthetics0000sims
ISBN 10
0802029515, 0802077773
LCCN
93108505
OCLC/WorldCat
27725492
Goodreads
2846413
1748285

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Work ID
OL527671W

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