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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester, UK ; Manchester University Press ; 2003Distributor: New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2003Description: 1 online resource (vi, 242 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1417578017
  • 9781417578016
  • 9781847790354
  • 1847790356
  • 1526137828
  • 9781526137821
  • 9786610734115
  • 6610734119
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: New aestheticism.DDC classification:
  • 111/.85 22
LOC classification:
  • BH39 .N47 2003eb
Other classification:
  • 08.41
  • CC 6900
  • 5,1
Online resources:
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.
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Summary: 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 culture.
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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.

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 culture.

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