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The new aestheticism

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
Print Book, English, 2003
Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK, 2003
Aufsatzsammlung
vi, 242 pages ; 24 cm
9780719061387, 9780719061394, 0719061385, 0719061393
51738383
List of ContributorsThe new aestheticism: An introduction - John J. Joughin and Simon MalpasPART ONE: Positions1. Aesthetic education and the demise of experience - Thomas Docherty2. Towards a contemporary aesthetic - Jonathan Dollimore3. Mimesis in black and white: Feminist aesthetics, negativity and semblance - Ewa Plonowska Ziarek4. What comes after art - Andrew Bowie5. Touching art: Aesthetics, fragmentation and community - Simon MalpasPART TWO: READINGS6. The Alexandrian aesthetic - Howard Caygill7. Defending poetry, or is there an early modern aesthetic? - Mark Robson8. Shakespeare's genius: 'Hamlet', adaptation and the work of following - John J. Joughin9. Critical knowledge, scientific knowledge and the truth of literature - Robert Eaglestone10. Melancholy as form: Towards an archaeology of modernism - Jay Bernstein11. Kant and the ends of criticism - Gary Banham12. Including transformation: Notes on the art of the contemporary - Andrew Benjamin13. Aesthetics and politics: Between Adorno and Heidegger - Joanna Hodge -- .