The New Aestheticism

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John J. Joughin, Simon Malpas
Manchester University Press, 2003 - 242 páginas
This text introduces the notion of a new aestheticism - 'new' insofar as it identifies a turn taken by some contemporary thinkers towards the idea that focussing on the 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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Aesthetic education and the demise of experience Thomas Docherty
23
towards a contemporary aesthetic Jonathan Dollimore
36
feminist aesthetics negativity
51
What comes after art? Andrew Bowie
68
aesthetics fragmentation and community
83
The Alexandrian aesthetic Howard Caygill
99
Defending poetry or is there an early modern aesthetic?
119
Hamlet adaptation and the work of following
131
Critical knowledge scientific knowledge and the truth of literature
151
towards an archaeology of modernism
167
Kant and the ends of criticism Gary Banham
193
notes on the art of the contemporary
208
Index
237
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John J. Joughin is Reader in English at the University of Central Lancashire Simon Malpas is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh

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