Aestheticism and Deconstruction : : Pater, Derrida, and de Man / / Jonathan Loesberg.
Considered an exemplar of "Art-for-Art's Sake" in Victorian art and literature, Walter Pater (1839-1894) was co-opted as a standard bearer for the cult of hedonism by Oscar Wilde, and this version of aestheticism has since been used to attack deconstruction. Here Jonathan Loesberg bol...
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Loesberg, Jonathan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Aestheticism and Deconstruction : Pater, Derrida, and de Man / Jonathan Loesberg. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014] ©1991 1 online resource (248 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Legacy Library ; 1208 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Aestheticism of Deconstruction -- One. What Is Art for Art's Sake and How Could It Be Anything Else? -- Two. Studies in the Histories of The Renaissance -- Three. Deconstruction: Foundations and Literary Language -- Four. Deconstructive Aesthetics: Literary Language, History, Ideology -- Five. Aesthetic Analysis and Political Critique -- Afterword. Aesthetidsm, Journalism, and de Man's Wartime Writings -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Considered an exemplar of "Art-for-Art's Sake" in Victorian art and literature, Walter Pater (1839-1894) was co-opted as a standard bearer for the cult of hedonism by Oscar Wilde, and this version of aestheticism has since been used to attack deconstruction. Here Jonathan Loesberg boldly uses Pater's important work on society and culture, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), to argue that the habitual dismissal of deconstruction as "aestheticist" fails to recognize the genuine philosophic point and political engagement within aestheticism. Reading Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man in light of Pater's Renaissance, Loesberg begins by accepting the charge that deconstruction is "aestheticist." He goes on to show, however, that aestheticism and modern deconstruction both produce philosophical knowledge and political effect through persistent self-questioning or "self-resistance" and in the internal critique and destabilization of hegemonic truths. Throughout Loesberg reinterprets Pater and reexamines the contributions of deconstruction in relation to the apparent theoretical shift away from deconstruction and toward new historicism.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Aestheticism (Literature). Deconstruction. Literature History and criticism Theory, etc. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 9783110413441 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package Literature 9783110413533 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691607153 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400862214?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400862214 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400862214.jpg |
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