Aesthetics and modernity : essays


by Agnes Heller; edited by John Rundell
Bok Engelsk 2011
Omfang
VIII, 233 S.
Opplysninger
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Agnes Heller: modernity, aesthetics and the human condition, an interpretative essay / John Rundell -- What went wrong with the concept of the beautiful? -- Autonomy of art or the dignity of the artwork -- The role of emotions in the reception of artworks -- Joke culture and transformations of the public sphere -- The contemporary historical novel -- The metaphysics of embodiment in the western tradition -- European master-narratives about freedom -- The three logics of modernity and the double bind of the modern imagination -- The absolute stranger: shakespeare and the drama of failed assimilation -- The gods of greece: germans and greeks -- Self representation and the representation of the other -- Where are we at home?... - Agnes Heller -- What went wrong with the concept of the beautiful? -- Autonomy of art or the dignity of the artwork -- The role of emotions in the reception of artworks -- Joke culture and transformations of the public sphere -- The contemporary historical novel -- The metaphysics of embodiment in the western tradition -- European master-narratives about freedom -- The three logics of modernity and the double bind of the modern imagination -- The absolute stranger: shakespeare and the drama of failed assimilation -- The gods of Greece -- Self representation and the representation of the other -- Where are we at home?
Emner
Dewey
ISBN
9780739141311 (cloth) : alk. paper. - 9780739141328 (pbk.) : alk. paper. - 9780739141335 (electronic)

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