Identity, Politics and the Novel: The Aesthetic Moment (Political Philosophy Now)
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Ian Fraser (Author)
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Fraser's diverse and wide-ranging book offers an examination of the work of four critically acclaimed novelists, Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Identity), Ian McEwan (Atonement and Saturday), Michel Houellebecq (Atomised and Platform) and J.M. Coetzee (Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year), to aesthetically explore our understanding of identity. The analysis utilises frameworks from classical and contemporary political, philosophical and social theory to explore the notion of the aesthetic self within these texts. Fraser explores these ideas from within the Marxist aesthetic tradition, using theorists such as Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, E.P. Thompson, Julia Kristeva, Henri Lefebvre, Albert Camus, Thomas Aquinas and Theodor Adorno. Fraser therefore offers an innovative and unique approach that breaks new ground by developing a Marxist aesthetic account of identity through the medium of contemporary fiction. No
About the Author
Ian Fraser is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University.
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- Contributor: Ian Fraser
- Imprint: University of Wales Press
- ISBN13: 9780708326060
- Number of Pages: 240
- Packaged Dimensions: 138x216mm
- Packaged Weight: 413
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Release Date: 2013-05-31
- Series: Political Philosophy Now
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Ian Fraser is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University.
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