Marxist Aesthetics: The foundations within everyday life for an emancipated consciousness
Marxist Aesthetics: The foundations within everyday life for an emancipated consciousness by Pauline Johnson
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0415609089 | 174 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0415609089 | 174 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Originally published in 1984, this study deals with a number of influential figures in the European tradition of Marxist theories of aesthetics, ranging from Lukacs to Benjamin, through the Frankfurt School, to Brecht and the Althusserians. Pauline Johnson shows that, despite the great diversity in these theories about art, they all formulate a common problem, and she argues that an adequate response to this problem must be based on account of the practical foundations within the recipient's own experience for a changed consciousness.