Craig Leonard, "Uncommon Sense: Aesthetics after Marcuse" (MIT Press, 2022)
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The Importance of Aesthetics in Politics
Aesthetics can be summarized as a branch of philosophy that addresses sensory experience in relationship to the objects of the external world including but not limited to art objects. aesthetics has been especially concerned with what constitutes the beautiful this will come up in marcuzah as well and by extension and often by analogy which is something I want to take up in the book. Aesthetic experiences from marcuzh are not transcendent but historically situated in material ye formed, he says.
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