Michael Wayne

Red Kant: Aesthetics, Marxism and the Third Critique (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Is Kant really the 'bourgeois' philosopher that his advocates and opponents take him to be?
In this bold and original re-thinking of Kant, Michael Wayne argues that with his aesthetic turn in the Third Critique, Kant broke significantly from the problematic philosophical structure of the Critique of Pure Reason. Through his philosophy of the aesthetic Kant begins to circumnavigate the dualities in his thought. In so doing he shows us today how the aesthetic is a powerful means for imagining our way past the apparent universality of contemporary capitalism.

Here is an unfamiliar Kant: his concepts of beauty and the sublime are reinterpreted as attempts to socialise the aesthetic while Wayne reconstructs the usually hidden genealogy between Kant and important Marxist concepts such as totality, dialectics, mediation and even production. In materialising Kant's philosophy, this book simultaneously offers a Marxist defence of creativity and imagination grounded in our power to think metaphorically and in Kant's concept of reflective judgment. Wayne also critiques aspects of Marxist cultural theory that have not accorded the aesthetic the relative autonomy and specificity which it is due.

Discussing such thinkers as Adorno, Bourdieu, Colletti, Eagleton, Lukács, Ranciére and others, Red Kant: Aesthetics, Marxism and the Third Critique presents a new reading of Kant's Third Critique that challenges Marxist and mainstream assessments of Kant alike.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472505118
• Artikelnr.: 41356020

Autorenporträt

Michael Wayne is Professor in Screen Media at Brunel University, UK. He is author of Marx's Das Kapital For Beginners (Random House, 2012) and Marxism and Media Studies: Key Concepts and Contemporary Trends (Pluto Press, 2003).