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Aesthetics as Secular Millennialism

Aesthetics as Secular Millennialism

Aesthetics as Secular Millennialism

Benjamin Bennett

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Bloomsbury Publishing plc
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2015
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Historia de otras regiones
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9781611486582
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Secular Millenialism: The Train of Aesthetics from Baumgarten and Kant to Walt Disney and Hitler by Benjamin Bennett combines the perspectives of intellectual history, literary history, and political history in order to illuminate the operation of the idea of aesthetics, and of the historical actualization of that idea, in the background of twentieth-century totalitarianism.

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