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Speculations. V : aesthetics in the 21st century / edited by Ridvan Askin, Paul J. Ennis, Andreas Hägler, Philipp Schweighauser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Askin, Ridvan, Editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Realism.
- Aesthetics, Modern--21st century.
- Aesthetics, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (474 pages) : PDF. digital file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2014
- Brooklyn, New York : Punctum Books, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Ever since the turn of the century aesthetics has steadily gained momentum as a central field of study across the disciplines. No longer sidelined, aesthetics has grown in confidence. While this recent development brings with it a return to the work of the canonical authors (most notably Baumgarten and Kant), some contemporary scholars reject the traditional focus on epistemology and theorize aesthetics in its ontological connotations. It is according to this shift that speculative realists have proclaimed aesthetics as “first philosophy” and as speculative in nature. With speculative realism aesthetics no longer necessarily implies human agents. This is in alignment with the general speculative realist framework for thinking all kinds of processes, entities, and objects as free from our all-pervasive anthropocentrism, which states, always, that everything is “for us.” This special volume of Speculations explores the ramifications of what could be termed the new speculative aesthetics. In doing so, it stages a three-fold encounter: between aesthetics and speculation, between speculative realism and its (possible) precursors, and between speculative realism and art and literature.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on: online resource; title from cover (punctum books, viewed Jun. 23, 2016).
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780692203163
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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