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Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Theory of Historical Materialism QRA " an incomparable study ofAuthor Contributor(s): Sprinker, Michael Publisher: Verso Date: 8 17 1987 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW This book sets out to clarify the nature of the aesthetic as a category within the theory of historical materialism. It opens with an analysis of Marxs brief discussion of Greek art in the Grundrisse, moves through a series of readings of specifically bourgeois texts, including those of Ruskin, G. M. Hopkins, Nietzsche and Henry James, and then