Critique of Taste subject-economics Writing some years before Raj

Writing some years before Raj nostalgia became all the rage

the traumatized soldier stands in for destructive wars abroad

Art Has No History

From a range of disciplines and a fruitful diversity of theoretical perspectives

A long and brilliant autobiographical interview

Critique of Taste subject-economics Writing some years before RajGalvano Della Volpe was the dominant philosopher of Italian Marxism for twenty years after the Liberation. His most important book was a work of aesthetic theoryCritique of Taste. Della Volpe, proponent of a robust materialism in all his writings, was concerned to rehabilitate the inherently rational and intellectual nature of art. Opposing both the sociological reductionism of Plekhanov or Lukcs, and the formalist irrationalism of Croce or New