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

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...

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Other Authors:	Joughin, John J., Malpas, Simon
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Manchester, UK ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2003.
Subjects:	Aesthetics. Criticism. Humanities. Philosophy. Philosophy: aesthetics. PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics. LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory. Aesthetics Criticism Aufsatzsammlung Ästhetik Esthetica. Literary collections Anthologies.
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Table of Contents:

The new aestheticism: an introduction / John J. Joughin, Simon Malpas
PART I. POSITIONS
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
PART II. READINGS
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
PART III. REFLECTIONS
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.

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

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