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This book suggests that modern cultural and critical institutions have persistently associated questions of aesthetics and politics with literature, theory, technics, and romanticism. Its first section examines aesthetic nationalism and the figure of the body, focusing on writings by Benedict Anderson, J. G. Fichte, and Matthew Arnold, and arguing that uneasy acts of aestheticization (of media technology) and abjection (of the maternal body) undergird the production of the national body as ""imagined community."" Subsequent chapters on Paul de Man, Friedrich Schlegel, and Percy Shelley explore the career of the gendered body in the aesthetic tradition and the relationship among aesthetics, technics, politics, and figurative language. The author accounts for the hysteria that has characterized media representations of theory, explains why and how romanticism has remained a locus of extravagant political hopes and anxieties, and, in a sequence of close readings, uncovers the ""anaesthetic"" condition of possibility of the politics of aesthetics. Cultural Memory in the Present

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Author:   Marc Redfield
Publisher:   Stanford University Press
Imprint:   Stanford University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.358kg
ISBN:  

9780804747509

ISBN 10:   0804747504
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   31 January 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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This book suggests that modern cultural and critical institutions have associated questions of aesthetics and politics with literature, theory, technics, and romanticism. It accounts for the hysteria that has characterized media representations of theory and explains why and how romanticism has remained a focus of political hopes and anxieties.

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Marc Redfield is Professor of English and holder of the John and Lillian Maguire Distinguished Chair in the Humanities at the Claremont Graduate University.

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