Synopses & Reviews
Ambitious study of the connections between aesthetics and politics from Romanticism to the twentieth century.
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. Modernity, subjectivity, liberalism, and nationalism; 2. The symbol and the aesthetic sphere; 3. Schillerâs aesthetic state; 4. Symbol, state, and clerisy: the aesthetic politics of Coleridge; 5. The best self and the private self: Matthew Arnold on culture and the state; 6. Aesthetic kingship and queenship: Ruskin on the state and the home; 7. The aesthetic and political spheres in contemporary theory: Adorno and Habermas.