Aesthetics and modernity essays /

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Main Author: Heller, Agnes
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Rundell, John F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, c2011.
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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?.