Aesthetic Theory Across the Disciplines (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Ryynänen, Max; Somhegyi, Zoltán

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What is aesthetics? How is it related to other disciplines? The chapters of this book examine the history, theoretical conditions and connection points between aesthetics and other disciplines. The authors all work on the edge of aesthetics and at least one other academic field, hence through their regular scholarly activities they constantly benefit from their cross- and interdisciplinary practice, and this makes them ideal interpreters of these methodological questions. This book is also an alternative introduction to aesthetics for the interested who already have some basic knowledge - but through its companions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538176610
• Artikelnr.: 68620263

Autorenporträt

Max Ryynänen is senior lecturer in Theory of Visual Culture at Aalto University Finland. He is the former chair of the Finnish Society for Aesthetics and the editor-in-chief of Popular Inquiry: The Journal of the Aesthetics of Kitsch, Camp and Mass Culture and The Journal of Somaesthetics. He is or has been also on the advisory board of e.g. Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, Terra Aesthetica, ESPES, Aesthetica Universalis, The Journal of Global Popular Culture, and Research in Arts and Education. His latest books include e.g. Learning from Decay: Essays on the Aesthetics of Architectural Dereliction and Its Consumption, Aesthetics in Dialogue, On The Philosophy of Central European Art and Art, Excess, Education. He is also editor of Aesthetic Perspectives on Culture, Politics, and Landscape and a contributor of many journals in varieties of aesthetic theory and cultural studies like Ágalma, Contemporary Aesthetics, Journal of Asia-Pacific Popular Culture and Poetics. Zoltán Somhegyi is an art historian and associate professor of art history at the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary. Previously he was based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates and was working as chair of the department of fine arts of the College of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Sharjah. He was the secretary general (2016-2022) and still is the website editor of the International Association for Aesthetics (IAA), member of the Executive Committee of the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH) and consultant of Art Market Budapest: International Contemporary Art Fair. He is advisory and editorial board member of numerous academic journals of aesthetics. His recent books include Reviewing the Past: The Presence of Ruins, Aesthetics in Dialogue: Applying Philosophy of Art in a Global World, Learning from Decay: Essays on the Aesthetics of Architectural Dereliction and Its Consumption and Retracing the Past: Historical Continuity in Aesthetics from a Global Perspective.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: An Introduction to Aesthetics and Its Companions
Zoltán Somhegyi and Max Ryynänen:
Chapter 1. Aesthetics and Evolutionary Theory
Wendy Steiner
Chapter 2. Aesthetics and Environmental Humanities-The Fieldwork on
Ourselves
Mami Aota
Chapter 3. Aesthetics and Architecture
Tyrus Miller
Chapter 4. Aesthetics and Urban Studies
Mateusz Salwa
Chapter 5. Aesthetics and Politics
Karl Axelsson
Chapter 6. Aesthetics and Philosophy: From Baumgarten to Nietzsche
Joseph Tanke
Chapter 7. Aesthetics and the Classical Tradition: Remarks on Baumgarten
and Batteux
Oiva Kuisma
Chapter 8. Aesthetics and Cultural Studies: On the Relationship Between a
Small Discipline and her Bully Big Brother
Max Ryynänen
Chapter 9. Aesthetics and Art History
Zoltán Somhegyi
Chapter 10. An Exercise in Metamorphosis: Aesthetics of the Curatorial
Jacob Lund
Chapter 11. Aesthetics and Art Education
Paul Duncum
Chapter 12. Aesthetics and Musicology
Lisa Giombini
Index
About the Contributors