Dead Artists, Live Theories, and Other Cultural Problems

By: Stanley Aronowitz

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Paperback | 13 December 1993 | Edition Number 1

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In these far-reaching essays, Stanley Aronovitz examines some of the crucial cultural shifts associated with the crisis of modernity. Against the predominant view that Great Art possesses intrinsic aesthetic value, the author contends that aesthetics has itself been surpassed. In the introductory essay, Aronowitz argues aesthetics, like mathematics education, is a powerful sorting machine to preserve the hierarchical system of cultural and economic privilege. In his essays of Bakhtin and Williams, he stresses that their work shows literary and other artistic works as forms of social knowledge; even bad' literature may illuminate everyday life and the structure of feeling' far better than ethnographic, historical and sociological studies. Yet he insists that art does not represent' the lifeworld, but can be understood as constitutive of it. We read novels, watch TV and videos for pleasure, but art produces experiences as much as it registers it. The essays all take on the crisis in modernity: whether in educational controversies, Murray Bookchin's social ecology, Roland Barthes as a star', the anti-aesthetics of postmodernism, recent transgressions in the philosophy of science, or Orlando Patterson's powerful analysis of slavery.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Cultural Studies Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Arts & Entertainment History of Art & Design Styles Art from 1900 to Current Art from 1960

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Death of "Art"	p. 1
So What's New? : The Postmodern Paradox	p. 35
Critic as Star	p. 44
Opposites Detract: Sontag Versus Barthes for Barthes's Sake	p. 97
The Tensions of Critical Theory: Is Negative Dialectics All There Is?	p. 106
Literature as Social Knowledge: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Reemergence of the Human Science	p. 139
Williams and the Intervention of Cultural Studies	p. 160
Reflections on Identity	p. 191
Birth Rights	p. 210
Paulo Freire's Radical Democratic Humanism	p. 218
The Power of Positive Thinking: Jurgen Habermas in America	p. 238
The Decline of American Liberalism	p. 253
Past Perfect	p. 280
Seeing Green	p. 286
Is Democracy Possible? The Decline of the Public in the American Debate	p. 296
Index	p. 315
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