Abstract
Terry Eagleton's discourse on body tries to reconnect body with traditional political themes such as state governance, class contradictions and the mode of production. Researchers on the theoretical sources of his body discourse — the body of labor, the body of power, and the body of desire — often overlooks his ambitions to rebuild the rational and the political, and his commentaries on bodies under discipline, in carnival, in pain, or in terror. In this context, he emphasizes that the prevailing discourse of postmodern body is a product of failed politics of class and he accuses the discourse of over-emphasis on social constructs of body regardless of the material basis of the body. However, the paper argues that the accusation is made on exaggeration.
First Page
123
Last Page
129
Recommended Citation
Wang, Wei. 2015. "Body, Aesthetics and Politics: On Eagleton's View of Body." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 35, (5): pp.123-129. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol35/iss5/4
