Aesthetics and Marxism - Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western Contemporaries

"This book remaps the topography of Marxist aesthetics by highlighting the contributions of Chinese Marxists and Marxist critics, which have been overlooked by Western scholarship."--David D. W. Wang, Columbia University

About the author

Liu Kang is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese at Pennsylvania State University. His books include Demonizing China and Bakhtin’s Dialogism and Cultural Theory.

Summary

Examines writers, philosophers, and political leaders in China and the West and reveals the extent to which they incorporate ideas about "culture" and "aesthetics" in their theories and practices.

Product details

• Authors: Liu Kang, Kang Liu, Kang Liu
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.03.2000
• EAN: 9780822324256
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2425-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 239 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Ästhetik, China, Marxismus und Kommunismus, Westeuropa