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Stuart Sim
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Beyond Aesthetics: Confrontations With Postructuralism and Postmodernism (Theory/Culture) |
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English |
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Paperback |
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181 |
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1993-01 |
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0802077773 |
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Univ of Toronto Pr |
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0.63 pounds |
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159 x x 225 centimeters |
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Product Description
Jacques Derria, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard and Geoffrey Hartman all claim to have found a way to transcend Value Judgement. This book confronts these assertions and argues that thinkers such as these have, by thier rejection of conventional methods of constructing value judgements, succeeded in problematizing the entire area of aesthetics. Stuart Sims treats postculturalism and postmodernism as forms of anti-aesthetics and contextualises the movements within a longer-running tradition of anti-foundationalism and radical scepticism in Western philosophy. Arguing from a broadly socialist, historical materialist position he demands that discourses be made to declare their ideological commitments. While the radical scepticism of Derrida,m Lyotard, Baudrillard, and their followers is shown to be ultimately philosophically unsustainable and ideologically suspect from a left-wing point of view, Sims concludes that these critics nevertheless point to a need for reassessment of methods and objectives among critical theorists on the left
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