{"product_id":"aesthetics-and-its-discontents-hardback-9780745646305","title":"Aesthetics and Its Discontents (Hardback) 9780745646305","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAesthetics and Its Discontents\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJacques Rancière (Author), Steven Corcoran (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745646305, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 July 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e176 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.4 x 14.7 x 1.6 cm, 0.299 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Riveting. In short compass, Rancière provides a razor-sharp critique of the anti-aesthetics of postmodernism. His ear for the substitution of political substance by empty moralism ? call it: the sublime, the unpresentable, the other, the Shoah ? is unerring. His dissections of Badiou, Lyotard, von Trier's \u003ci\u003eDogville\u003c\/i\u003e, and a Christian Boltanski installation are pitch-perfect. For a pointed defense of the role of aesthetics for a radical politics: begin here.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJay Bernstein, \u003ci\u003eNew School for Social Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"Jacques Rancière's \u003ci\u003eAesthetics and its Discontents\u003c\/i\u003e mounts a subtle and spirited defense of modern aesthetic thought, from Schiller to Adorno. Aesthetics is not philosophy seeking to dominate art, as its modish detractors claim. Rather, it is the attempt to think through the artwork's paradoxes and contradictions. In a forceful critique of rival thinkers such as Lyotard and Badiou, Rancière shows that abandoning aesthetic discourse does not mean respecting the integrity of art. Instead, art ends up being reduced to the vehicle of a remorseless ethical demand, or to the cipher of a transcendent truth.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePeter Dews, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Essex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAesthetics and Its Discontents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOnly yesterday aesthetics stood accused of concealing cultural games of social distinction. Now it is considered a parasitic discourse from which artistic practices must be freed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut aesthetics is not a discourse. It is an historical regime of the identification of art. This regime is paradoxical, because it founds the autonomy of art only at the price of suppressing the boundaries separating its practices and its objects from those of everyday life and of making free aesthetic play into the promise of a new revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAesthetics is not a politics by accident but in essence. But this politics operates in the unresolved tension between two opposed forms of politics: the first consists in transforming art into forms of collective life, the second in preserving from all forms of militant or commercial compromise the autonomy that makes it a promise of emancipation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis constitutive tension sheds light on the paradoxes and transformations of critical art. It also makes it possible to understand why today's calls to free art from aesthetics are misguided and lead to a smothering of both aesthetics and politics in ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction \u003cp\u003ePolitics of Aesthetics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAesthetics as Politics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems and Transformations of Critical Art\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Antinomies of Modernism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlain Badiou’s Inaesthetics: the Torsions of Modernism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLyotard and the Aesthetics of the Sublime: A Counter-reading of Kant\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ethical Turn in Aesthetics and Politics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407315661080,"sku":"9780745646305","price":39.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745646305.jpg?v=1784161156","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/aesthetics-and-its-discontents-hardback-9780745646305","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}