Aestheticism and Deconstruction: Pater, Derrida, and De Man by Jonathan Loesberg

Aestheticism and Deconstruction: Pater, Derrida, and De Man

Jonathan Loesberg

252 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

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Considered an exemplar of "Art-for-Art's Sake" in Victorian art and literature, Walter Pater (1839-1894) was co-opted as a standard bearer for the cult of hedonism by Oscar Wilde, and this version of aestheticism has since been used to attack deco...

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