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.

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.

Table of Contents

The new aestheticism: an introduction / John J. Joughin and Simon Malpas -- Aesthetic education and the demise of experience / Thomas Docherty -- Art in time of war: towards a contemporary aesthetic / Jonathan Dollimore -- Mimesis in black and white: feminist aesthetics, negativity and semblance / Ewa Plonowska Ziarek -- What comes after art? / Andrew Bowie -- Touching art: aesthetics, fragmentation and community / Simon Malpas -- The Alexandrian aesthetic / Howard Caygill -- Defending poetry, or, is there an early modern aesthetic? / Mark Robson -- Shakespeare's genius: Hamlet, adaptation and the work of following / John J. Joughin -- Critical knowledge, scientific knowledge and the truth of literature / Robert Eaglestone -- Melancholy as form: towards an archaeology of modernism / Jay Bernstein -- Kant and the ends of criticism / Gary Banham -- Including transformation: notes on the art of the contemporary / Andrew Benjamin -- Aesthetics and politics: between Adorno and Heidegger / Joanna Hodge.