In The Sovereign Self, Grant H. Kester examines the evolving
discourse of aesthetic autonomy from its origins in the
Enlightenment through avant-garde projects and movements in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Kester traces the idea of
aesthetic autonomy—the sense that art should be autonomous from
social forces while retaining the ability to reflect back
critically on society—through Kant, Schiller, Hegel, Marx, and
Adorno. Kester critiques the use of aesthetic autonomy as the basis
for understanding the nature of art and the shifting relationship
between art and revolutionary praxis. He shows that dominant
discourses of aesthetic autonomy reproduce the very forms of
bourgeois liberalism that autonomy discourse itself claims to
challenge. Analyzing avant-garde art and political movements in
Russia, India, Latin America, and elsewhere, Kester retheorizes the
aesthetic beyond autonomy. Ultimately, Kester demonstrates that the
question of aesthetic autonomy has ramifications that extend beyond
art to encompass the nature of political transformation and forms
of anticolonial resistance that challenge the Eurocentric concept
of “Man,” upon which the aesthetic itself often depends.
General
| Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| Firstpublished: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Grant H. Kester
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
280 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4780-2042-4 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-4780-2042-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781478020424 |
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