The Importance of Being Autonomous: Toward a Marxist Defense of Art for Art’s Sake

Mediations 26 (1-2) (2012)
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Jackson Petsche explores the positive potential, for the present moment, of “l’art pour l’art,” as mobilized by the Decadent writers of the fin de siècle. Petsche’s essay is the winner of the 2010 Michael Sprinker Graduate Writing Competition, which recognizes an essay or dissertation chapter that engages with Marxist theory, scholarship, pedagogy, or activism

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