Aesthetics & Alienation

by Tedman, Gary

• ISBN13: 9781780993010
• ISBN10: 1780993013
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-16
• Publisher: Zero Books

Summary

Aesthetics has recently become the focus of greater attention, and is now seen as a central problem in critical cultural theory and Marxism. This places Gary Tedman's work at the forefront of this concern, where his concepts of the aesthetic level and of aesthetic state apparatuses have proved to be a challenge even to many conventional Marxisms as well as mainstream academic cultural theory.

Author Biography

Gary Tedman was born in London in 1958. He studied Fine Art at the University of Portsmouth and took an MA in Cultural History at the Royal College of Art, London, 1988. He has published a number of essays and articles, notably in Rethinking Marxism Journal and Political Affairs.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Method	p. 20
Feelings and Ideas in Marx, Freud and Althusser	p. 32
Ideology, the State and the Aesthetic Level of Practice	p. 40
Notes towards a Foundation for a Subjectless Aesthetics	p. 66
Marx's 1844 Manuscripts as a Work of Art	p. 90
East/West and the Marx-Zeno Dialectic	p. 114
Origins of Kitsch and Counterfeit Dialectics	p. 137
Paris 1844, Manet and Courbet	p. 154
the Art Aesthetic State Apparatuses	p. 161
the Family as Aesthetic State Apparatus	p. 193
Soviet Avant Garde Aesthetics	p. 203
Art and Education	p. 230
Class Struggles Today	p. 243
Notes	p. 247
References	p. 253
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