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Aesthetics and modernity : essays /
Aesthetics and Modernity brings together Agnes Heller's most recent essays around the topics of aesthetic genres such as painting, music, literature and comedy, aesthetic reception, and embodiment. The essays draw on Heller's deep appreciation of aesthetics in all its forms from the classi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
c2011.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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?.