Where Literature and Politics Converge Associate professor of German literature Jan Mieszkowski has published a new book, Labors of Imagination: Aesthetics and Political Economy from Kant to Althusser (Fordham University Press, 2006). The press offers this thumbnail in its online catalogue: “Challenging prevailing assumptions about the relationship between language and politics, this book offers a compelling new account of aesthetic and economic thought since the 18th century.” Mieszkowski explains that his
new work shows how both post-Kantian aesthetics and economic theory after Adam Smith exhibit similar
concerns with the conceptualization of language. |