001477821 000__ 04987nam\a22007815i\4500 001477821 001__ 1477821 001477821 003__ DE-B1597 001477821 005__ 20231026034831.0 001477821 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477821 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477821 008__ 230103t20222006nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477821 020__ $$a9780823291984 001477821 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823291984$$2doi 001477821 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)566014 001477821 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1306538196 001477821 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477821 0410_ $$aeng 001477821 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477821 072_7 $$aLIT004170$$2bisacsh 001477821 1001_ $$aMieszkowski, Jan, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001477821 24510 $$aLabors of Imagination :$$bAesthetics and Political Economy from Kant to Althusser /$$cJan Mieszkowski. 001477821 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2022] 001477821 264_4 $$c©2006 001477821 300__ $$a1 online resource (240 p.) 001477821 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477821 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477821 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477821 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477821 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tPreface -- $$tIntroduction: Production, History -- $$t1. The Art of Interest -- $$t2. Breaking the Laws of Language -- $$t3. On the Poetics and Politics of Voice -- $$t4. Economics Beyond Interest -- $$t5. Ideology, Obviously -- $$tConclusion -- $$tNotes -- $$tBibliography -- $$tIndex 001477821 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477821 520__ $$aThis book is a major new study of the doctrines of productivity and interest in Romanticism and classical political economy. The author argues that the widespread contemporary embrace of cultural historicism and the rejection of nineteenth-century conceptions of agency have hindered our study of aesthetics and politics. Focusing on the difficulty of coordinating paradigms of intellectual and material labor, Mieszkowski shows that the relationship between the imagination and practical reason is crucial to debates about language and ideology. From the Romantics to Poe and Kafka, writers who explore Kant's claim that poetry "sets the imagination free" discover that the representational and performative powers of language cannot be explained as the products of a self-governing dynamic, whether formal or material. A discourse that neither reflects nor prescribes the values of its society, literature proves to be a uniquely autonomous praxis because it undermines our reliance on the concept of interest as the foundation of self-expression or self-determination. Far from compromising its political significance, this turns literature into the condition of possibility of freedom. For Smith, Bentham, and Marx, the limits of self-rule as a model of agency prompt a similar rethinking of the relationship between language and politics. Their conception of a linguistic labor that informs material praxis is incompatible with the liberal ideal of individualism. In the final analysis, their work invites us to think about social conflicts not as clashes between competing interests, but as a struggle to distinguish human from linguistic imperatives. 001477821 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001477821 546__ $$aIn English. 001477821 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) 001477821 650_7 $$aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / German.$$2bisacsh 001477821 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001477821 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tFordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014$$z9783111189604 001477821 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tFordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013$$z9783110707298 001477821 7760_ $$cprint$$z9780823225873 001477821 852__ $$bebk 001477821 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823291984$$zOnline Access 001477821 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1477821$$pGLOBAL_SET 001477821 912__ $$a978-3-11-070729-8 Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001477821 912__ $$a978-3-11-118960-4 Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014$$b2014 001477821 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001477821 912__ $$aEBA_CL_LT 001477821 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001477821 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001477821 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_LT 001477821 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001477821 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001477821 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001477821 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001477821 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001477821 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001477821 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001477821 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001477821 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001477821 980__ $$aBIB 001477821 980__ $$aEBOOK 001477821 982__ $$aEbook 001477821 983__ $$aOnline