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Criticism and Modernity: Aesthetics, Literature, and Nations in Europe and its Academies Book

Criticism and Modernity : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198185017 : 0198185014 : 10 Jun 1999 : This work traces the conditions under which criticism emerged as a socio-cultural practice within the institutionalized forms of European modernity and democracy. It argues that criticism was born out of anxieties about national supremacy in the late-17th century.Read More

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    This book argues that from the late seventeenth century to the present national cultures have sought to regulate the democratic subject through the academic form of arguments about the proper relations of aesthetics to ethics and politics. It offers a radical reconsideration of the history of modernity, tracing the emergence of criticism as a socio-cultural practice across all the major European nations, and drawing on an extensive range of European literature and philosophy.

  • 0198185014
  • 9780198185017
  • Thomas Docherty
  • 1 April 1999
  • OUP Oxford
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 256
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