The Ideology of the Aesthetic

The Ideology of the Aesthetic presents a history and critique of the concept of the aesthetic throughout modern Western thought. As such, this is a critical survey of modern Western philosophy, focusing in particular on the complex relations between aesthetics, ethics and politics. Eagleton provides a brilliant and challenging introduction to these concerns, as characterized in...

The Ideology of the Aesthetic presents a history and critique of the concept of the aesthetic throughout modern Western thought. As such, this is a critical survey of modern Western philosophy, focusing in particular on the complex relations between aesthetics, ethics and politics. Eagleton provides a brilliant and challenging introduction to these concerns, as characterized in the work of Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Lukacs, Adorno, Habermas, and others.-Wide in span, as well as morally and politically committed, this is Terry Eagleton's major work to date. It forms both an original enquiry and an exemplary introduction.

特里·伊格尔顿（Terry Eagleton, 1943- ），当代著名文学批评家和文化理论家。1964年大学毕业后任雷蒙·威廉斯的助理研究员。1969年到牛津大学任教，长期担任凯瑟琳学院沃顿英文和文学理论讲座教授，现任曼彻斯特大学英文讲座教授。从60年代末开始，伊格尔顿以“新马克思主义”美学和文艺理论评析当代西方各种美学和文学批评流派，分析和评价英美一些作家的作品，在当代美学尤其是西方马克思主义美学界影响广泛。主要著作有《批评与意识形态》、《马克思主义与文学批评》、《文学理论引论》、《莎士比亚与社会：莎士比亚戏剧论文集》、《力量的神话：对勃朗特姐妹的马克思主义研究》等。