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Force : a fundamental concept of aesthetic anthropology / Christoph Menke ; translated by Gerrit Jackson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Menke, Christoph, 1958-
- Standardized Title:
- Kraft. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics, Modern--18th century.
- Aesthetics, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 111 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text re-conceives modern aesthetics by reconstructing its genesis in the 18th century, between Baumgarten's 'Aesthetics' and Kant's 'Critique of Judgment'. Force demonstrates that aesthetics, and hence modern philosophy, began twice.
- Contents:
- Sensibility: the indeterminacy of the imagination
- Praxis: the practice of the subject
- Play: the operation of force
- Aestheticization: the transformation of praxis
- Aesthetics: philosophy's contention
- Ethics: the freedom of self-creation.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-4973-5
- 0-8232-5069-5
- 0-8232-5042-3
- OCLC:
- 820632028
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