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Aesthetics and Marxism: Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western Contemporaries (Post-contemporary Interventions by Kang Liu, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Although Chinese Marxism—primarily represented by Maoism—is generally seen by Western intellectuals as monolithic, Liu Kang argues that its practices and projects are as diverse as those in Western Marxism, particularly in the area of aesthetics. In this comparative study of European and Chinese Marxist traditions, Liu reveals the extent to which Chinese Marxists incorporate ideas about aesthetics and culture in their theories and practices. In doing so, he constructs a wholly new understanding of Chinese Marxism. Far from being secondary considerations in Chinese Marxism, aesthetics and culture are in fact principal concerns. In this respect, such Marxists are similar to their Western counterparts, although Europeans have had little understanding of the Chinese experience. Liu traces the genealogy of aesthetic discourse in both modern China and the West since the era of classical German thought, showing where conceptual modifications and divergences have occurred in the two traditions. He examines the work of Mao Zedong, Lu Xun, Li Zehou, Qu Qiubai, and others in China, and from the West he discusses Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, and Marxist theorists including Horkheimer, Adorno,

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Author

Kang Liu, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282903463

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Political Science, Western