The New Aestheticism,9780719061394

The New Aestheticism

by Joughin, John J.; Malpas, Simon
ISBN13: 9780719061394
ISBN10: 0719061393
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-05-08
Publisher(s): Manchester University Press
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Summary

The rise of literary theory spawned the rise of anti-aestheticism, so that even for cultural theorists, discussions concerning aesthetics were often carried out in a critical shorthand that failed to engage with the particularity of the work of art, much less the specificities of aesthetic experience. This book introduces the notion of a new aestheticism--"new" insofar as it identifies a turn taken by a number of important contemporary thinkers towards the idea that focussing on the specifically aesthetic impact of a work of art or literature has the potential to open radically different ways of thinking about identity, politics and culture.

Author Biography

John J. Joughin is Reader in English at the University of Central Lancashire. Simon Malpas is Lecturer in English at the Manchester Metropolitan University.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
vii
The new aestheticism: an introduction 1(22)
John J. Joughin
Simon Malpas
Part I Positions
Aesthetic education and the demise of experience
23(13)
Thomas Docherty
Art in time of war: towards a contemporary aesthetic
36(15)
Jonathan Dollimore
Mimesis in black and white: feminist aesthetics, negativity and semblance
51(17)
Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
What comes after art?
68(15)
Andrew Bowie
Touching art: aesthetics, fragmentation and community
83(16)
Simon Malpas
Part II Readings
The Alexandrian aesthetic
99(20)
Howard Caygill
Defending poetry, or, is there an early modern aesthetic?
119(12)
Mark Robson
Shakespeare's genius: Hamlet, adaptation and the work of following
131(20)
John J. Joughin
Critical knowledge, scientific knowledge and the truth of literature
151(16)
Robert Eaglestone
Melancholy as form: towards an archaeology of modernism
167(26)
Jay Bernstein
Part III Reflections
Kant and the ends of criticism
193(15)
Gary Banham
Including transformation: notes on the art of the contemporary
208(10)
Andrew Benjamin
Aesthetics and politics: between Adorno and Heidegger
218(19)
Joanna Hodge
Index 237

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