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Author Loesberg, Jonathan, 1950-

Title Aestheticism and Deconstruction : Pater, Derrida, and de Man.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (247 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Princeton Legacy Library
Princeton legacy library.
Contents Cover; Introduction The Aestheticism of Deconstruction.
Summary Considered an exemplar of ""Art-for-Art's Sake"" in Victorian art and literature, Walter Pater (1839-1894) was co-opted as a standard bearer for the cult of hedonism by Oscar Wilde, and this version of aestheticism has since been used to attack deconstruction. Here Jonathan Loesberg boldly uses Pater's important work on society and culture, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), to argue that the habitual dismissal of deconstruction as ""aestheticist"" fails to recognize the genuine philosophic point and political engagement within aestheticism. Reading Jacques Derrida and Paul d.
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Subject Pater, Walter, 1839-1894 -- Knowledge and learning -- Literature.
Pater, Walter, 1839-1894.
Literature.
Derrida, Jacques.
Derrida, Jacques.
De Man, Paul.
De Man, Paul.
Derrida, Jacques.
De Man, Paul.
Pater, Walter, 1839-1894 -- Knowledge -- Literature.
Deconstruction.
Deconstruction.
Aestheticism (Literature)
Aestheticism (Literature)
Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature -- Theory, etc.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Loesberg, Jonathan. Aestheticism and Deconstruction : Pater, Derrida, and de Man. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014
ISBN 9781400862214 (electronic book)
1400862213 (electronic book)