Critique of Taste (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780860915652)

Galvano Della Volpe was the dominant philosopher of Italian Marxism for twenty years after the Liberation. His most important book was a work of aesthetic theory--Critique of Taste. Della Volpe, proponent of a robust materialism in all his writings, was concerned to rehabilitate the inherently rational and intellectual nature of art. Opposing both the sociological reductionism of Plekhanov or Luk cs, and the formalist irrationalism of Croce or New Criticism, Della Volpe's aim was to demonstrate that conceptual meaning is always inseparable from aesthetic effect.

Whether he is discussing Pindar or G ngora, Cleanth Brooks or Roland Barthes, Goethe or Mallarm , Della Volpe is always challenging, always illuminating. Critique of Taste represents one of the major crossroads of twentieth-century aesthetics.

Author: Galvano Della Volpe
ISBN-10: 0860915654
ISBN-13: 9780860915652
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 12/17/1991
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.62d