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Labors of Imagination : Aesthetics and Political Economy from Kant to Althusser.
Title:
Labors of Imagination : Aesthetics and Political Economy from Kant to Althusser.
Author:
Mieszkowski, Jan.
ISBN:
9780823225897
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Contents:
Labors of Imagination -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Art of Interest -- Chapter 2: Breaking the Laws of Language -- Chapter 3: On the Poetics and Politics of Voice -- Chapter 4: Economics Beyond Interest -- Chapter 5: Ideology, Obviously -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Challenging prevailing assumptions about the relationship between language and politics, this book offers a compelling new account of aesthetic and economic thought since the eighteenth century. Mieszkowski explores the doctrines of productivity and interest in Romanticism and classical political economy, arguing that the critical force of any historical model of literature depends on its understanding of the distinction between intellectual and material labor. This provocative contribution to contemporary debates about culture and ideology will be important for scholars of literature, history, and political theory.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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