Ebook: Aesthetics & Alienation

A complete and original theory of aesthetics based on Marx and Althusser in the modernist Marxist anti-humanist tradition (Brecht, Althusser, Benjamin, Adorno). The main concepts that arise from this work are: the aesthetic level of practice, aesthetic state apparatuses, a.;Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Method; Chapter 3 Feelings and Ideas in Marx, Freud, and Althusser; Chapter 4 Ideology, the State and the Aesthetic Level of Practice; Chapter 5 Notes towards a Foundation for a Subjectless Aesthetics; Chapter 6 Marx's 1844 Manuscripts as a Work of Art; Chapter 7 East/West and the Marx-Zeno Dialectic; Chapter 8 Origins of Kitsch and Counterfeit Dialectics; Chapter 9 Paris 1844, Manet, Courbet, Marx; Chapter 10 The Art Aesthetic State Apparatuses; Chapter 11 The Family as Aesthetic State Apparatus.