Aesthetics and Modernity (eBook, ePUB)

Essays by Agnes Heller
Redaktion: Rundell, John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Aesthetics and Modernity brings together Agnes Heller's most recent essays around the topics of aesthetic genres such as painting, music, literature and comedy, aesthetic reception, and embodiment. The essays draw on Heller's deep appreciation of aesthetics in all its forms from the classical to the Renaissance and the contemporary periods. Heller's recent work on aesthetics explores the complex and fraught status of artworks within the context of the history of modernity. For Heller, not only does the relation between aesthetics and modernity have to be looked at anew, but also the way in which these terms are conceptualized, and this is the two-fold task that she sets for herself in these essays. She engages this task with a critical recognition of modernity's pitfalls. This collection highlights these pitfalls in the context of continuing possibilities for aesthetics and our relationship with works of art, and throws light on Heller's theory of emotions and feelings, and her theory of modernity. Aesthetics and Modernity collects the essential essays of Agnes Heller, and is a must-read for anyone interested in Heller's major contributions to philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739141335
• Artikelnr.: 38224742

Autorenporträt

John Rundell is associate professor of social theory at the University of Melbourne. Agnes Heller is an influential and internationally recognized philosopher who frequently writes on such diverse topics as ethics, modernity, and political theory. In 2005 she was awarded the Sonning Prize. She is currently the Hannah Arendt Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at The New School in New York City.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Chapter One. Agnes Heller: Modernity, Aesthetics and the Human
Condition-An Interpretative Essay
Chapter 2 Chapter Two. What Went Wrong with the Concept of the Beautiful?
Chapter 3 Chapter Three. Autonomy of Art or the Dignity of the Artwork
Chapter 4 Chapter Four. The Role of Emotions in the Reception of Artworks
Chapter 5 Chapter Five. Joke culture and transformations of the public
sphere.
Chapter 6 Chapter Six. The Contemporary Historical Novel
Chapter 7 Chapter Seven. The Metaphysics of Embodiment in the Western
Tradition
Chapter 8 Chapter Eight. European master-narratives about freedom.
Chapter 9 Chapter Nine. The Three Logics of Modernity and the Double Bind
of the Modern Imagination
Chapter 10 Chapter Ten. The Absolute Stranger: Shakespeare and the Drama of
Failed Assimilation
Chapter 11 Chapter Eleven. The Gods of Greece: Germans and Greeks
Chapter 12 Chapter Twelve. Self representation and the representation of
the other.
Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen. Where are we at Home?