Towards a Productive Aesthetics: Contemporary and Historical Interventions in Blake and Brecht

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Keith O'Regan

Towards a Productive Aesthetics

Contemporary and Historical Interventions in Blake and Brecht

Keith O'Regan

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English

Haymarket Books
14 March 2023

Philosophy: aesthetics; Media studies; Political ideologies; Economic systems & structures

Series: Historical Materialism

"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."

By: Keith O'Regan
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781642597868
ISBN 10: 1642597864
Series: Historical Materialism
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 14 March 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Keith O'Regan 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.