Aesthetic Marx

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	Contributors
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	Introduction*
		I. Marx and the aesthetic
		II. Deadly serious aesthetics—a twenty-first century Marx
		III. Marx’s aesthetic legacies
		IV. Literature, style, and the materiality of language
		V. External and immanent critiques of aesthetic ideology
		VI. The aesthetic turn in political theory
		VII. Re-presentations of the political: Machiavellian Marx
		VIII. Materialist histories of subjectivity
		IX. Eternal returns: Marx in the arts
		X. The book: sections and chapters
		Notes
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	1 Three Logics of the Aesthetic in Marx*
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		IV. Conclusion
		Notes
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	2 Poiêsis, Praxis, Aisthesis : Remarks on Aristotle and Marx
		I. Poiêsis and praxis in Aristotle
		II. The sublation of poiêsis and praxis in early Marx
		III. Towards a Marxist aesthetic
		Notes
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	3 “Sensuous Supra-Sensuous”: The Aesthetics of Real Abstraction*
		I. Real Abstraction
		II. Economic and Linguistic Value
		III. The Spectral Materiality of Wertgegenständlichkeit
		IV. Commodity-Language and its Secret
		V. Capitalism as Religion
		VI. Symbol, Allegory, and Capitalist Dingwelt
		Notes
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	4 Free Associations: On Marx and Freud*
		I. Twofold associationism
		II. Ontologies and methods
		III. Aesthetics and the politics of self-regulation
		Notes
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	5 On Beauty and its Challenges: Friedrich Theodor Vischer and Karl Marx
		I. Vischer’s concept of beauty
		II. Vischer’s sublime and the comical
		III. Marx’s and Vischer’s aesthetic wholes
		IV. The impact of Vischer’s Aesthetics during the years of the restoration
		V. From comedy to the farce
		VI. The microscopical view
		Notes
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	7 Imagery as Weaponry: ars gratia belli
		Notes
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	8 Radical Schiller and the Young Marx
		I. Schiller’s letters
		II. State censorship, style and copyright in the young Marx 64
		III. Wood-theft and the commons
		Notes
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	9 Installing Communism
		Notes
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	10 Marx’s Aesthetics in Mexico: Conceptual Art After 1968
		I. A Marxian aesthetics for 1968
		II. Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez: Marx and the concept of art as creative work
		III. Conceptual aesthetico- politics—from Sánchez Vázquez to Híjar and Acha
		IV. Marx and the aesthetico- political today
		Notes
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	11 Filming Capital: On Cinemarxism in the Twenty-first Century *
		I. The productive logic of montage
		II. Representation and accumulation
		III. The making of Labour: The Movie
		Notes
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	12 Marx as Art as Politics: Representations of Marx in Contemporary Art
		I. Icons of grandpa Marx
		II. The labor of melancholy: recycling a ghost
		III. Marxist discourse as art as idea
		IV. Politics for art’s sake: producing the subject for an object
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