Terry Eagleton’s The Ideology of the Aesthetic is a major work of Marxist literary and cultural theory, tracing how ideas of beauty, taste, art and sensuous experience became bound up with modern politics, morality and social control.

Moving from Kant, Burke and Schiller through Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Benjamin and Adorno, Eagleton shows the aesthetic not as some harmless decorative category, but as a charged site where bodies, feelings, discipline, freedom and ideology are made to speak through one another. Dense, ambitious and often brilliantly severe, this is aesthetic theory with its velvet gloves removed.

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