Description: Further DetailsTitle: Revolutions AestheticCondition: NewSubtitle: A Cultural History of Ba'thist SyriaISBN-10: 1503630587EAN: 9781503630581ISBN: 9781503630581Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 06/28/2022Description: The November 1970 coup that brought Hafiz al-Asad to power fundamentally transformed cultural production in Syria. A comprehensive intellectual, ideological, and political project—a Ba'thist cultural revolution—sought to align artistic endeavors with the ideological interests of the regime. The ensuing agonistic struggle pitted official aesthetics of power against alternative modes of creative expression that could evade or ignore the effects of the state. With this book, Max Weiss offers the first cultural and intellectual history of Ba'thist Syria, from the coming to power of Hafiz al-Asad, through the transitional period under Bashar al-Asad, and continuing up through the Syria War. Revolutions Aesthetic reconceptualizes contemporary Syrian politics, authoritarianism, and cultural life. Engaging rich original sources—novels, films, and cultural periodicals—Weiss highlights themes crucial to the making of contemporary Syria: heroism and leadership, gender and power, comedy and ideology, surveillance and the senses, witnessing and temporality, and death and the imagination. Revolutions Aesthetic places front and center the struggle around aesthetic ideology that has been key to the constitution of state, society, and culture in Syria over the course of the past fifty years.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Max WeissGenre: Law & PoliticsBook Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and CulturesTopic: History, Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Revolutions Aesthetic
Title: Revolutions Aesthetic
Subtitle: A Cultural History of Ba'thist Syria
ISBN-10: 1503630587
EAN: 9781503630581
ISBN: 9781503630581
Release Date: 06/28/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 456 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Revolutions Aesthetic : a Cultural History of Ba'thist Syria
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 1.3 in
Subject: Middle Eastern, Asia / General, World / Middle Eastern, Middle East / General
Item Weight: 28.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Political Science, History
Author: Max Weiss
Item Width: 6.3 in
Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures Ser.
Format: Hardcover
