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Labors of Imagination - Aesthetics and Political Economy from Kant to Althusser (Hardcover)
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Labors of Imagination - Aesthetics and Political Economy from Kant to Althusser (Hardcover)
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This book is a major new study of the doctrines of productivity and
interest in Romanticism and classical political economy. The author
argues that the widespread contemporary embrace of cultural
historicism and the rejection of nineteenth-century conceptions of
agency have hindered our study of aesthetics and politics. Focusing
on the difficulty of coordinating paradigms of intellectual and
material labor, Mieszkowski shows that the relationship between the
imagination and practical reason is crucial to debates about
language and ideology.From the Romantics to Poe and Kafka, writers
who explore Kant's claim that poetry "sets the imagination free"
discover that the representational and performative powers of
language cannot be explained as the products of a self-governing
dynamic, whether formal or material. A discourse that neither
reflects nor prescribes the values of its society, literature
proves to be a uniquely autonomous praxis because it undermines our
reliance on the concept of interest as the foundation of
self-expression or self-determination. Far from compromising its
political significance, this turns literature into the condition of
possibility of freedom. For Smith, Bentham, and Marx, the limits of
self-rule as a model of agency prompt a similar rethinking of the
relationship between language and politics. Their conception of a
linguistic labor that informs material praxis is incompatible with
the liberal ideal of individualism. In the final analysis, their
work invites us to think about social conflicts not as clashes
between competing interests, but as a struggle to distinguish human
from linguistic imperatives.
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