Aestheticism and Deconstruction : Pater, Derrida, and de Man

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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Loesberg, Jonathan
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Pater, Walter, > 1839-1894.
Derrida, Jacques.
De Man, Paul.
Pater, Walter, > 1839-1894 > Knowledge > Literature.
Literature > Theory, etc.
Deconstruction.
Literature.
Aestheticism (Literature)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Deconstructivist.
Litterature > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Esthetisme (Litterature)
Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 d
Description matérielle:1 online resource (252 pages).
ISBN:9781400862214

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