Towards a Productive Aesthetics

Contemporary and Historical Interventions in Blake and Brecht

von Keith O'Regan

238 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In Towards a Productive Aesthetics: Contemporary and Historical Interventions in Blake and Brecht, Keith O'Regan mobilises a constellative approach to compare the political-aesthetic strategies of William Blake (1757-1827) and Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956). O'Regan traces two similar trajectories in each author's work: an exploration of how capitalist domination defines conjunctures, and an investigation of how historical figures, themes and terrains illustrate past failures or losses that can be cleaved open for radical possibilities in the present. Brecht and Blake posit an "oppositional aesthetics of the now" that articulates a theory of experience under capitalism, while counter-posing an oppositional form of existence.

• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Philosophie Themen der Philosophie Philosophie Ästhetik
• ISBN: 9789004501843
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.12.2021
• Größe: 235 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Brill