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Towards a Productive Aesthetics: Contemporary and Historical Interventions in Blake and Brecht de Keith O’Regan

Towards a Productive Aesthetics: Contemporary and Historical Interventions in Blake and Brecht: Historical Materialism Book Series, cartea 241

Autor Keith O’Regan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – dec 2021
In Towards a Productive Aesthetics: Contemporary and Historical Interventions in Blake and Brecht, Keith O’Regan mobilises a constellative approach to compare the political-aesthetic strategies of William Blake (1757-1827) and Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956). O’Regan traces two similar trajectories in each author’s work: an exploration of how capitalist domination defines conjunctures, and an investigation of how historical figures, themes and terrains illustrate past failures or losses that can be cleaved open for radical possibilities in the present. Brecht and Blake posit an “oppositional aesthetics of the now” that articulates a theory of experience under capitalism, while counter-posing an oppositional form of existence.
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ISBN-13: 9789004501843
ISBN-10: 9004501843
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Historical Materialism Book Series

Cuprins

AAcknowledgments

1 Introduction

2 Brecht and the Now
1Mann ist Mann: The Right Question and the Precision of Time
2The Knowing Johanna
3Kuhle Wampe and the Good Answer
4Concluding Brecht to 1933

3 Blake, Opposition, and the Now
1Blake and Romanticism
2Expect Poison, Demand Movement
3Innocence’s Opposition to Experience
4Conclusion: The Future in the Present

4 Brecht, History and the Productive Past
1And the Cart Rolls On … Mutter Courage and Learning from Those Who Don’t
2The Religion of the Now: Galileo and the Knowing Science
3The Chalk Lines of History: Der Kaukasische Kreidekreis, Productivity and the Past
4Concluding the Historical Brecht

5 Blake, Milton, and Historical Redemption
1Blake Contra Newton
2The Importance of What Is Missing
3Filling in That Which Is Missing
4Milton’s Entrance
5Blake Labouring in History
6Brecht, Blake and the Uses of History

6 Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Notă biografică

Keith O’Regan, PhD (2017), teaches in the Writing and Humanities Departments of York University. His recent publications centre on comparative analyses of historical and contemporary film, and writing and graduate education.

Recenzii

"Radical aesthetics has long been indebted to the works of William Blake and Bertolt Brecht. But never before have these two great authors been brought together and their works “refunctioned” to produce an aesthetics of resistance for our times. Astutely deploying Walter Benjamin’s concept of now time, this is precisely what Keith O’Regan achieves in this vital study. The result is a thoroughly original intervention in radical social theory and cultural studies." — David McNally
"A powerful interrogation of oppositional aesthetics in the work of two of the most inventive writers of the last few centuries. O’Regan’s striking juxtaposition of Brecht and Blake features a welcome emphasis on the dynamics of production and the forces that shape it, illuminating at every turn—from big ideas to local tactics—what was to be done." — Ian Balfour, York University