Aesthetics and modernity essays /
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
c2011.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10444478 |
Table of Contents:
- 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?.