… ineradicable doubt rather than Enlightenment certainty. Sexual … individuals negotiate and
reconstitute their circumstances … of aesthetic considerations as mediated in popular culture …

… American popular culture increasingly manifests a ‘depravity … of aesthetics, thereby
relinquishing any power to enlighten … the very category of the aesthetic is reconstituted as part of a …

… of the body as a template upon which aesthetic sensibilities are … by refinement, enlightenment
and ‘civilized behavior’. … people worldwide, and the popular culture of the developed world …

… The radicalness of Smollett’s body politics emerges when we … taking him to a land of
enlightenment, but to one of tyranny … (As we shall see, Smollett is highly critical of the aesthetics …

… Sternhell asserts that the Anti-Enlightenment was a development separate from the Enlightenment
and sees the two traditions as evolving parallel to one another over time. He contends …

… view of politics as the perfecting of the self, in sum, aesthetic … merging the aesthetic with the
political was formulated.At the … could articulate political morality, even as the Enlightenment’s …

… popular authors and artists within the context of contemporary trends in philosophical thought,
aesthetic theory, and political … To trace its formation is to reconstitute one of the most im…

… It is important to note here that I do not posit popular culture (here magazines) as the origin
for ideas that … However, he argues that it was the Enlightenment that provided the ethos of self-…

… The journal’s originality chiefly derived from the juxtaposition of art and popular culture, …
Enlightenment’s efforts to build a viable public sphere, Kant’s theory recognized aesthetics’ …

… cultural history—is a sentiment that is alien to the disillusioned mood of postmodernity. For
the very concept of posthistoire suggests that the Enlightenment project of reconciling history …