The new aestheticism / / edited by John J. Joughin and Simon Malpas.
Introduces the idea of a new aestheticism - ""new"" in that it identifies a turn taken by contemporary thinkers towards the idea that focusing on the specifically aesthetic impact of a work of art or literature has the potential to open different ways of thinking about identity,...
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Year of Publication: | 2003 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 242 pages) :; digital file(s). |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Other title: | The new aestheticism: an introduction / Aesthetic education and the demise of experience / Art in time of war: towards a contemporary aesthetic / Mimesis in black and white: feminist aesthetics, negativity and semblance / What comes after art? / Touching art: aesthetics, fragmentation and community / The Alexandrian aesthetic / Defending poetry, or, is there an early modern aesthetic? / Shakespeare's genius: Hamlet, adaptation and the work of following / Critical knowledge, scientific knowledge and the truth of literature / Melancholy as form: towards an archaeology of modernism / Kant and the ends of criticism / Including transformation: notes on the art of the contemporary / Aesthetics and politics: between Adorno and Heidegger / |
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Summary: | Introduces the idea of a new aestheticism - ""new"" in that it identifies a turn taken by contemporary thinkers towards the idea that focusing on the specifically aesthetic impact of a work of art or literature has the potential to open different ways of thinking about identity, politics and culture. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 1280734116 9786610734115 1847790356 1417578017 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | edited by John J. Joughin and Simon Malpas. |