1580999The Sovereign Selfhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-sovereign-self-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/159815/03775ad0-c2e8-42cb-903e-b4ebb264b486.jpg?v=638333636337600000413573MXNDuke University PressInStock/Ebooks/Arte//Ebooks/In The Sovereign Self, Grant H. Kester examines the evolving discourse of aesthetic autonomy from its origins in the Enlightenment through avant-garde projects and movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Kester traces the idea of aesthetic autonomythe sense that art should be autonomous from social forces while retaining the ability to reflect back critically on societythrough Kant, Schiller, Hegel, Marx, and Adorno. Kester critiques the use of aesthetic autonomy as the basis for understanding the nature of art and the shifting relationship between art and revolutionary praxis. He shows that dominant discourses of aesthetic autonomy reproduce the very forms of bourgeois liberalism that autonomy discourse itself claims to challenge. Analyzing avant-garde art and political movements in Russia, India, Latin America, and elsewhere, Kester retheorizes the aesthetic beyond autonomy. Ultimately, Kester demonstrates that the question of aesthetic autonomy has ramifications that extend beyond art to encompass the nature of political transformation and forms of anticolonial resistance that challenge the Eurocentric concept of Man, upon which the aesthetic itself often depends....1562263The Sovereign Self413573https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-sovereign-self-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/159815/03775ad0-c2e8-42cb-903e-b4ebb264b486.jpg?v=638333636337600000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20239781478024552_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9781478024552_In The Sovereign Self, Grant H. Kester examines the evolving discourse of aesthetic autonomy from its origins in the Enlightenment through avant-garde projects and movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Kester traces the idea of aesthetic autonomythe sense that art should be autonomous from social forces while retaining the ability to reflect back critically on societythrough Kant, Schiller, Hegel, Marx, and Adorno. Kester critiques the use of aesthetic autonomy as the basis for understanding the nature of art and the shifting relationship between art and revolutionary praxis. He shows that dominant discourses of aesthetic autonomy reproduce the very forms of bourgeois liberalism that autonomy discourse itself claims to challenge. Analyzing avant-garde art and political movements in Russia, India, Latin America, and elsewhere, Kester retheorizes the aesthetic beyond autonomy. Ultimately, Kester demonstrates that the question of aesthetic autonomy has ramifications that extend beyond art to encompass the nature of political transformation and forms of anticolonial resistance that challenge the Eurocentric concept of Man, upon which the aesthetic itself often depends....9781478024552_Duke University Presslibro_electonico_615bd670-ae2c-37cb-919e-badc5fac04d0_9781478024552;9781478024552_9781478024552Grant H.InglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/dukeupress-epub-76194bfc-fa8f-43d6-b5c1-aa8104745cd5.epub2023-06-13T00:00:00+00:00Duke University Press