Description
| Product ID: | 9781642597868 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Historical Materialism |
| Title: | Towards a Productive Aesthetics |
| Subtitle: | Contemporary and Historical Interventions in Blake and Brecht |
| Authors: | Author: Keith O'Regan |
| Page Count: | 248 |
| Subjects: | Philosophy: aesthetics, Philosophy: aesthetics, Media studies, Political ideologies and movements, Economic systems and structures, Media studies, Political ideologies, Economic systems & structures |
| Description: | O'Regan's analysis compares the politics and aesthetics of Blake and Brecht to offer dazzling insights into the work of both In Towards a Productive Aesthetics: Contemporary and Historical Interventions in Blake and Brecht, Keith O''Regan mobilises a constellative approach to compare the political-aesthetic strategies of William Blake (1757-1827) and Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956). O''Regan traces two similar trajectories in each author''s work: an exploration of how capitalist domination defines conjunctures, and an investigation of how historical figures, themes, and terrains illustrate past failures or losses that can be cleaved open for radical possibilities in the present. Brecht and Blake posit an "oppositional aesthetics of the now" that articulates a theory of experience under capitalism, while counter-posing an oppositional form of existence. |
| Imprint Name: | Haymarket Books |
| Publisher Name: | Haymarket Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-12-06 |
