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Reckoning with the Imagination - Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience (Hardcover)
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Reckoning with the Imagination - Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience (Hardcover)
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Much current theorizing about literature involves efforts to renew
our sense of aesthetic values in reading. Such is the case with new
formalism as well as recent appeals to the notion of "surface
reading." While sympathetic to these efforts, Charles Altieri
believes they ultimately fall short because too often they fail to
account for the values that engage literary texts in the social
world. In Reckoning with the Imagination, Altieri argues for a
reconsideration of the Kantian tradition of Idealist ethics, which
he believes can restore much of the power of the arguments for the
role of aesthetics in art. Altieri finds a perspective for that
restoration in a reading of Wittgenstein's later work that stresses
Wittgenstein's parallel criticisms of the spirit of empiricism.
Altieri begins by offering a phenomenology of imagination, because
we cannot fully honor art if we do not link it to a distinctive,
socially productive force. That force emerges in two quite
different but equally powerful realizations in his reading of John
Ashbery's "Instruction Manual," which explicitly establishes a
model for a postromantic view of imagination, and William Butler
Yeats's "Leda and the Swan." He then turns to Wittgenstein with
chapters on the role of display as critique of Enlightenment
thinking, the honoring of qualities like sensitivity and the
ability to attune to the actions of others, the role of expression
in the building of models, and the contrast between ethical and
confessional modes of judgment. Finally, Altieri produces his own
model of aesthetic experience as participatory valuation and makes
an extended argument for the social significance of appreciation as
a way to escape the patterns of resentment fundamental to our
current mode of politics. A masterful work by one of our foremost
literary and philosophical theorists, Reckoning with the
Imagination will breathe new life into ongoing debates over the
value of aesthetic experience.
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