Force:A Fundamental Concept of Aesthetic Anthropology : A Fundamental Concept of Aesthetic Anthropology /

This text re-conceives modern aesthetics by reconstructing its genesis in the 18th century, between Baumgarten's 'Aesthetics' and Kant's 'Critique of Judgment'. Force demonstrates that aesthetics, and hence modern philosophy, began twice.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Menke, Christoph, 1958- (Author)
Other Authors: Jackson, Gerrit (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Aesthetics, Modern.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Esthetique > 18e siecle.
Aesthetics, Modern > 18th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Sensibility: the indeterminacy of the imagination
  • Praxis: the practice of the subject
  • Play: the operation of force
  • Aestheticization: the transformation of praxis
  • Aesthetics: philosophy's contention
  • Ethics: the freedom of self-creation.

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