The question of the aesthetic /

"This book provides a justification for the renewed study of the aesthetic in times during which the aesthetic is often regarded as mere diversion from our national and global crises. It offers a "defense" of aesthetic education in these times. Working within the philosophical traditi...

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Other Authors: Levine, George, 1931- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • The experience of art / Derek Attridge
  • The ontology of artworlds: a post-human, coevolutionary framework for aesthetics, art history, and art criticism / Richard O. Prum
  • Beauty and her sisters in the nineteenth century after / Jonah Siegel
  • Gates of horn in ivory towers: on beauty's truth / Herbert F. Tucker
  • What we do: the new this and the new that / Isobel Armstrong
  • Can migrants be seen? Some representations of migration in contemporary art, film, and literature / Josephine McDonagh
  • Aesthetic poison / Edgar Garcia
  • Aesthetic criticism and the postcolonial / Ankhi Mukherjee
  • On the last paragraph of the 1859 edition of Darwin's Origin of Species / Myra Jehlen
  • Wild aesthetics: D. H. Lawrence's "Art for my sake" / Philip Davis
  • "Whose eye darted contagious fire": aesthetic form, performative action, and Paradise Lost / Richard Eldridge
  • Tennyson's tears, Brooks's motivations / Susan J. Wolfson
  • Do birds disagree? The place of aesthetic value in advocacy for the humanities / Helen Small.