Craig Leonard, "Uncommon Sense: Aesthetics after Marcuse" (MIT Press, 2022)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Politics of Art
In the book I focus on what I see as a very significant and overlooked precise strategy let's say or even technique is a better word that marcuzah proposes or identifies as being the element of aesthetic experience. Defamiliarization was to differentiate poetic poetic speech from the prosaic so for him while not using defamiliarization was thinking about estrangement and its critical resistant implications one of the main aims of the book was to present marcuzh's rationale for endorsing this aesthetic form of estrangement which he called deep well in his work.
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