TY - BOOK ID - 77894908 TI - Romanticism, aesthetics, and nationalism PY - 1999 SN - 1107115337 0511005547 1280153490 0511117000 051114959X 0511309740 0511484313 0511050844 9780511005541 9780521630009 0521630002 0511035608 9780511035609 9780511117008 9780511484315 0521630002 0521022681 9780521022682 9781107115330 9781280153495 9780511309748 9780511050848 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Literature KW - Aesthetics, Modern. KW - Romanticism. KW - Nationalism in literature. KW - Politics and literature. KW - Literature and politics KW - Pseudo-romanticism KW - Romanticism in literature KW - Aesthetics KW - Fiction KW - Literary movements KW - Modern aesthetics KW - Appraisal of books KW - Books KW - Evaluation of literature KW - Criticism KW - Literary style KW - History and criticism. KW - Political aspects KW - Appraisal KW - Evaluation KW - Aesthetics, Modern KW - Nationalism in literature KW - Politics and literature KW - Romanticism KW - 82.01 KW - 82:32 KW - History and criticism KW - Esthetica KW - Literatuur en politiek KW - 82:32 Literatuur en politiek KW - 82.01 Esthetica KW - Thematology KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Aesthetics [Modern ] UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77894908 AB - This ambitious study, first published in 1999, argues that our conception of the aesthetic sphere emerged during the era of British and German Romanticism from conflicts between competing models of the liberal state and the cultural nation. The aesthetic sphere is thus centrally connected to 'aesthetic statism', which is the theoretical project of reconciling conflicts in the political sphere by appealing to the unity of the symbol. David Kaiser traces the trajectory of aesthetic statism from Schiller and Coleridge, through Arnold, Mill and Ruskin, to Adorno and Habermas. He analyses how the concept of aesthetic autonomy shifts from being a supplement to the political sphere to an end in itself; this shift lies behind the problems that contemporary literary theory has faced in its attempts to connect the aesthetic and political spheres. Finally, he suggests that we rethink the aesthetic sphere in order to regain that connection. ER -