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The question of the aesthetic
Title
The question of the aesthetic / George Levine.
ISBN
9780191937217
9780192844859
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Physical Description
1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations (colour).
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Summary
This book provides a justification for the renewed study of the aesthetic in times during which the aesthetic is often regarded as mere diversion from our national and global crises. It offers a "defense" of aesthetic education in these times. Working within the philosophical tradition that dissociates the aesthetic from utility, it argues not only that uselessness has important utility, but that attention to the aesthetic is not incompatible with attention to politics, and might even be more powerful politically if politics were not the direct object of its working. Among the various theories and examples this book offers, the introduction adds one,by way of Darwin's theory of sexual selection, that can be taken as an argument for the centrality of the aesthetic to human well being.
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Also available in Print and PDF edition.
Print version: Question of the aesthetic. First edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 07, 2022
Series
Oxford scholarship online
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction / George Levine
1. Two theories
1. The Experience of Art / Derek Attridge
2. The Ontology of Artworlds: A Post-Human, Coevolutionary Framework for Aesthetics, Art History, and Art Criticism / Richard O. Prum
2. Beauty and utility
3. Beauty and Her Sisters in the Nineteenth Century and After / Jonah Siegel
4. Gates of Horn in Ivory Towers: On Beauty's Truth / Herbert F. Tucker
3. Aesthetics and politics
5. What We Do: The New This and the New That / Isobel Armstrong
6. Can Migrants Be Seen? Some Representations of Migration in Contemporary Art, Film, and Literature / Josephine McDonagh
7. Aesthetic Poison / Edgar Garcia
8. Aesthetic Criticism and the Postcolonial / Ankhi Mukherjee
4. Reading closely: form and meaning
9. On the Last Paragraph of the 1859 Edition of Darwin's Origin of Species / Myra Jehlen
10. Wild Aesthetics: D.H. Lawrence's "Art for My Sake" / Philip Davis
11. "Whose Eye Darted Contagious Fire": Aesthetic Form, Performative Action, and Paradise Lost / Richard Eldridge
12. Tennyson's Tears, Brooks's Motivations / Susan J. Wolfson
5. Overview
13. Do Birds Disagree? The Place of Aesthetic Value in Advocacy for the Humanities / Helen Small
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