The new aestheticism / / edited by John J. Joughin and Simon Malpas.

• TeilnehmendeR: Joughin, John J.; Malpas, Simon.
• 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.
• 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 /
• 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.

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.