The whole of Marx's project confronts the narrow concerns of
political philosophy by embedding it in social philosophy and a
certain understanding of the aesthetic. From those of aesthetic
production to the "poetry of the future" (as Marx writes in the
Eighteenth Brumaire), from the radical modernism of bourgeois
development to the very idea of association (which defined one of
the main lines of tradition in the history of aesthetics), steady
references to Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe, and the idea that
bourgeois politics is nothing but a theatrical stage: the aesthetic
has a prominent place in the constellation of Marx's thought. This
book offers an original and challenging study of both Marx in the
aesthetic, and the aesthetic in Marx. It differs from previous
discussions of Marxist aesthetic theory as it understands the works
of Marx themselves as contributions to thinking the aesthetic. This
is an engagement with Marx's aesthetic that takes into account
Marx's broader sense of the aesthetic, as identified by Eagleton
and Buck-Morss - as a question of sense perception and the body. It
explores this through questions of style and substance in Marx and
extends it into contemporary questions of how this legacy can be
perceived or directed analytically in the present. By situating
Marx in contemporary art debates this volume speaks directly to
lively interest today in the function of the aesthetic in accounts
of emancipatory politics and is essential reading for researchers
and academics across the fields of political philosophy, art
theory, and Marxist scholarship.
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