Aesthetics and Marxism ：Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western Contemporaries ( Post-Contemporary Interventions )

Publication subTitle ：Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western Contemporaries

Publication series ：Post-Contemporary Interventions

Author： Kang Liu  

Publisher： Duke University Press‎

Publication year： 2000

E-ISBN: 9780822380535

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822324485

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780822324256

Subject： B27 The spread and development of Marxist philosophy in China

Keyword： Aesthetics., Culture., Philosophy, Marxist -- China., Philosophy, German -- 19th century., Philosophy, German -- 20th century.

Language： ENG

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Although Chinese Marxism—primarily represented by Maoism—is generally seen by Western intellectuals as monolithic, Liu Kang argues that its practices and projects are as diverse as those in Western Marxism, particularly in the area of aesthetics. In this comparative study of European and Chinese Marxist traditions, Liu reveals the extent to which Chinese Marxists incorporate ideas about aesthetics and culture in their theories and practices. In doing so, he constructs a wholly new understanding of Chinese Marxism.
Far from being secondary considerations in Chinese Marxism, aesthetics and culture are in fact principal concerns. In this respect, such Marxists are similar to their Western counterparts, although Europeans have had little understanding of the Chinese experience. Liu traces the genealogy of aesthetic discourse in both modern China and the West since the era of classical German thought, showing where conceptual modifications and divergences have occurred in the two traditions. He examines the work of Mao Zedong, Lu Xun, Li Zehou, Qu Qiubai, and others in China, and from the West he discusses Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, and Marxist theorists including Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, and Marcuse. While stressing the diversity of Marxist positions within China as well as in the West, Liu explains how ideas of culture and aesthetics have offered a constructive vision for a postrevolutionary society and have affected a wide field of issues involving t

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CONTENTS

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

Preface

Preface

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

1 Aesthetics, Modernity, and Alternative Modernity: The Case of China

1 Aesthetics, Modernity, and Alternative Modernity: The Case of China

1 Aesthetics, Modernity, and Alternative Modernity: The Case of China

1 Aesthetics, Modernity, and Alternative Modernity: The Case of China

2 The Formation of Marxist Aesthetics:From Shanghai to Yan'an

2 The Formation of Marxist Aesthetics:From Shanghai to Yan'an

2 The Formation of Marxist Aesthetics:From Shanghai to Yan'an

2 The Formation of Marxist Aesthetics:From Shanghai to Yan'an

3 Hegemony and Counterhegemony: National Formand ‘‘Subjective Fighting Spirit’’

3 Hegemony and Counterhegemony: National Formand ‘‘Subjective Fighting Spirit’’

3 Hegemony and Counterhegemony: National Formand ‘‘Subjective Fighting Spirit’’

3 Hegemony and Counterhegemony: National Formand ‘‘Subjective Fighting Spirit’’

4 Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Reconstruction

4 Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Reconstruction

4 Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Reconstruction

4 Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Reconstruction

5 Subjectivity and Aesthetic Marxism:Toward a Cultural Topology of Postrevolutionary Society

5 Subjectivity and Aesthetic Marxism:Toward a Cultural Topology of Postrevolutionary Society

5 Subjectivity and Aesthetic Marxism:Toward a Cultural Topology of Postrevolutionary Society

5 Subjectivity and Aesthetic Marxism:Toward a Cultural Topology of Postrevolutionary Society

Notes

Notes

Notes

Notes

Bibliography

Bibliography

Bibliography

Bibliography

Index

Index

Index

Index

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