Only aesthetics and political economy remain open paths for mental research.

Evidence

“Only two paths stand open to mental research: aesthetics, and also political economy.” Stephane Mallarme, “Magie,” in Variations sur un sujet, in Oeuvres completes (Paris, 1945), p. 399. The phrase, which I used as an epigraph to Marxism and Form, emerges from a complex mediation on poetry, politics, economics, and class written in 1895 at the very dawn of high modernism itself. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 1012 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Aesthetics and political economy are jointly necessary for cultural research. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 1012

Broader Connections

• Aesthetics and political economy are jointly necessary for cultural research. #expands (0.90) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 1012