Publisher's Synopsis
"The Ideology of the Aesthetic" aims at presenting a history and critique of the concept of the aesthetic throughout modern Western thought. As such, this is a critical survey of modern Western philosophy, focusing on the complex relations between aesthetics, ethics and politics. Eagleton provides an introduction to these concerns, as characterized in the work of Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Lukacs, Adorno, Habermas and others.
