The aestheticized self belongs historically to bourgeois private life

Evidence

Schmitt argues that this aestheticization of the relationship between individual and reality was possible ‘only in a bourgeois world’, where ‘it is left to the private individual to be his own priest’, but also ‘his own poet, his own philosopher, his own king, and his own masterbuilder in the cathedral of his own personality.’ — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 213

Categorization

• XREF: Bourgeois-individualist privatized self resembles the atomized consumer subjectivity Jameson attributes to late capitalism. — connects to: Bourgeois renunciation means surviving only by sacrificing full happiness — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 63; Bourgeoisie aestheticized crime to mask their own practiced illegalities — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 435; The twenties-thirties antithesis gets reified into image and symbolically reinvents the bourgeoisie — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 627 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Both aesthetic mood and money-possession liberate the self from resistant reality #expands (0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 451
• Bourgeoisie aestheticized crime to mask their own practiced illegalities #expands (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 435
• The twenties-thirties antithesis gets reified into image and symbolically reinvents the bourgeoisie #expands (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 627
• Modern anti-historical individualism means private appropriation of socially produced wealth #expands (0.70) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1287