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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 22:59:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Langston <dlangsto-AT-mcla.mass.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: Kant's aesthetics and liberation politics



On Tue, 15 May 2001, Louis F Caton wrote:

> I suppose the general rubric here would be the association between
> modernist aesthetics and social/political emancipation. 

I'm even less sure than Reg that you will find much of a connection
between modernist aesthetics and emancipation.  Partly it is a question of
definitions:  who gets included as advocating modernist aesthetics?

One of the chief defenders of modernism who links it to "liberation" is
Ezra Pound.  But his notions of history and "liberation" unlikely to make
the Marxist hit parade. 

I agree with Howard and John Young on Benjamin and Sartre (particularly in
_What is Literature?_).  But then again they seem more anti-modernist than
modernist (the problem of definitions again).

David Langston



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