Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Modernity, subjectivity, liberalism, and nationalism
- 2 The symbol and the aesthetic sphere
- 3 Schiller's aesthetic state
- 4 Symbol, state, and Clerisy: the aesthetic politics of Coleridge
- 5 The best self and the private self: Matthew Arnold on culture and the state
- 6 Aesthetic kingship and queenship: Ruskin on the state and the home
- 7 The aesthetic and political spheres in contemporary theory: Adorno and Habermas
- Notes
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Modernity, subjectivity, liberalism, and nationalism
- 2 The symbol and the aesthetic sphere
- 3 Schiller's aesthetic state
- 4 Symbol, state, and Clerisy: the aesthetic politics of Coleridge
- 5 The best self and the private self: Matthew Arnold on culture and the state
- 6 Aesthetic kingship and queenship: Ruskin on the state and the home
- 7 The aesthetic and political spheres in contemporary theory: Adorno and Habermas
- Notes
- Index
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- Romanticism, Aesthetics, and Nationalism , pp. i - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999