An edition of Charles Maurras's Classicising Aesthetics (2000)
Charles Maurras's Classicising Aesthetics
An Aestheticization of Politics (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures)
By Gaetano DeLeonibus
Publish Date
April 2000
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing
Language
eng
Pages
162
Description:
"Charles Maurras, founder of the Action Francaise, was a highly influential thinker in fin de siecle literary and political scenes, but has fallen out of favor among current academics due to his radical right-wing ideology. This study seeks to understand that ideology in terms of his aestheticization of politics, a driving principle behind Maurras, the person, the critic, and the storyteller. Originally formulated in the early 1890s, Maurras's classicising aesthetics aims to reintegrate the ethical and political back into an organic whole, as represented by the classical and neo-classical traditions, and informs both his racist and nationalist discourses."--BOOK JACKET.