The new aestheticism
This text introduces the notion of a new aestheticism - 'new' insofar as it identifies a turn taken by some contemporary thinkers towards the idea that focussing on the aesthetic impact of a work of art or literature has the potential to open different ways of thinking about identity, poli...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester, UK :
Manchester University Press
2003.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of contributors
- The new aestheticism: an introduction
- John J. Joughin and Simon Malpas
- Part I Positions
- 1 Aesthetic education and the demise of experience Thomas Docherty
- 2 Art in time of war: towards a contemporary aesthetic Jonathan Dollimore
- 3 Mimesis in black and white: feminist aesthetics, negativity and semblance Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
- 4 What comes after art? Andrew Bowie
- 5 Touching art: aesthetics, fragmentation and community Simon Malpas
- Part II Readings
- 6 The Alexandrian aesthetic Howard Caygill
- 7 Defending poetry, or, is there an early modern aesthetic? Mark Robson
- 8 Shakespeare's genius: Hamlet, adaptation and the work of following John J. Joughin
- 9 Critical knowledge, scientific knowledge and the truth of literature Robert Eaglestone
- 10 Melancholy as form: towards an archaeology of modernism Jay Bernstein
- Part III Reflections
- 11 Kant and the ends of criticism Gary Banham
- 12 Including transformation: notes on the art of the contemporary Andrew Benjamin
- 13 Aesthetics and politics: between Adorno and Heidegger Joanna Hodge
- Index.
