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Criticism and Modernity

Aesthetics, Literature, and Nations in Europe and Its Academies

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This book argues that from the late seventeenth century to the present national cultures have sought to regulate the democratic subject through the academic form of arguments about the proper relations of aesthetics to ethics and politics. It offers a radical reconsideration of the history of modernity, tracing the emergence of criticism as a socio-cultural practice across all the major European nations, and drawing on an extensive range of European literature and philosophy.

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Criticism and Modernity, Thomas Docherty

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1999
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Titre
Criticism and Modernity
Sous-titre
Aesthetics, Literature, and Nations in Europe and Its Academies
Langue
Anglais
Publié
1999
Format
rigide
Pages
256
ISBN10
0198185014
ISBN13
9780198185017
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This book argues that from the late seventeenth century to the present national cultures have sought to regulate the democratic subject through the academic form of arguments about the proper relations of aesthetics to ethics and politics. It offers a radical reconsideration of the history of modernity, tracing the emergence of criticism as a socio-cultural practice across all the major European nations, and drawing on an extensive range of European literature and philosophy.