REAL - Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, Volume 35

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During the past decades, it has been de rigueur in AmericanStudies to approach the aesthetic suspiciously, as avehicle for ideology. Recently, however, scholars have begunto recover the aesthetic from different disciplinaryangles. The present volume brings together leading andemerging scholars from Europe and the United Statesof America to critically assess, and contribute to, the returnof the aesthetic to the field. It does so by consideringthis return in the context of the aestheticization ofthe lifeworld. Contributors reexamine popular culture inan age of aesthetic capitalism and explore the aestheticizationof (democratic) politics. They make forays intoa practical aesthetics that thinks with rather than aboutart. They test whether aesthetic autonomy continues tohave purchase, what the aesthetic forecloses, and how ithas been turning against itself in the search for negativefreedom. This volume of REAL thus intervenes in onethe most heated debates in the field of American Studiesof the current moment.