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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joughin, John J.

Contributor:

Joughin, John J.

Malpas, Simon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Criticism.

Genre:

Anthologies

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 242 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2003.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

The interest in aesthetics in Philosophy, Literary and Cultural Studies is growing rapidly. 'The new aestheticism' contains exemplary essays by key practitioners in these fields which demonstrate the importance of this area of enquiry.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of contributors

John J. Joughin and Simon Malpas - The new aestheticism: an introduction

1 Thomas Docherty - Aesthetic education and the demise of experience

2 Jonathan Dollimore - Art in time of war: towards a contemporary aesthetic

3 Ewa Plonowska Ziarek - Mimesis in black and white: feminist aesthetics, negativity and semblance

4 Andrew Bowie - What comes after art?

5 Simon Malpas - Touching art: aesthetics, fragmentation and community

6 Howard Caygill - The Alexandrian aesthetic

7 Mark Robson - Defending poetry, or, is there an early modern aesthetic?

8 John J. Joughin - Shakespeare's genius: Hamlet, adaptation and the work of following

9 Robert Eaglestone - Critical knowledge, scientific knowledge and the truth of literature

10 Jay Bernstein - Melancholy as form: towards an archaeology of modernism

11 Gary Banham - Kant and the ends of criticism

12 Andrew Benjamin - Including transformation: notes on the art of the contemporary

13 Joanna Hodge - Aesthetics and politics: between Adorno and Heidegger

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9786610734115

9781280734113

1280734116

9781847790354

1847790356

9781417578016

1417578017

OCLC:

632574118

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access