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The future of aesthetic experience : conceiving a better way to understand beauty, ugliness, and the rest / Peter Baofu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baofu, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 238 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Contrary to the conventional wisdom held by many, Dr. Peter Baofu argues that the current popularity of postmodernism in the humanities (especially though not exclusively in relation to the arts) will not last, as it constitutes an aesthetic fad in this day and age of postmodernity. This thesis has important implications for understanding beauty, ugliness, and other aesthetic categories, be the era in the past, present, or future, to the extent that the current theoretical debate on aest...
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Introduction
- pt. 2. Nature
- pt. 3. The mind
- pt. 4. Culture
- pt. 5. Society
- pt. 6. Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-211) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-19123-3
- 9786612191237
- 1-4438-0749-4
- OCLC:
- 827209325
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