Aesthetic Marx

Samir Gandesha is Associate Professor at the Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University, Canada. Johan F. Hartle is Professor for Art Studies and Media Theory, with a focus on Political Aesthetics, at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany and Adjunct Professor for Aesthetics at the China University of Art, Hangzhou, China.

Introduction

Section I: Aesthetics / Emancipations

Chapter 1: Three Logics of the Aesthetic in Marx
Samir Gandesha, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Chapter 2: Poiesis, Praxis, Aisthesis: Remarks on Aristotle and Marx
Henry Pickford, Duke University, USA
Chapter 3: “Sensuous Supra-Sensuous”: The Aesthetics of Real Abstraction
Sami Khatib, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Chapter 4: Free Associations: On Marx and Freud
Johan F. Hartle, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Section II: Style and Performativity in Marx

Chapter 5: On Beauty and its Challenges: Friedrich Theodor Vischer and Karl Marx
Anna Katharina Gisbertz, University of Mannheim, Germany
Chapter 6: Marx: The Philosophical Defense of History in the Metonymical Mode
Hayden White, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Chapter 7: Imagery as Weaponry: ars gratia belli
Terrell Carver, University of Bristol, UK
Chapter 8: Radical Schiller and Young Marx
Daniel Hartley, University of Leeds, UK

Section III: Modes of Artistic Production

Chapter 9: Installing Communism
Boris Groys, New York University, USA
Chapter 10: Marx’s Aesthetics in Mexico: Conceptual Art After 1968
Robin Greeley, University of Connecticut, USA
Chapter 11: Filming Capital: On Cinemarxism in the Twenty-first Century
Sven Lütticken, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Chapter 12: Marx as Art as Politics: Representations of Marx in Contemporary Arts
Johan H. Hartle, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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