Robert B. Ray

Walden x 40 (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on Thoreau

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Provocative and illuminating essays on Thoreau's masterwork, shedding new light on its enduring inspiration and philosophical depth. In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved from his parents' house in Concord, Massachusetts, to a one-room cabin he built himself on the land of his mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. He described his time there, just over two years, as an experiment in "living deliberately." His daily journal entries became the source material for Walden, a masterful meditation on the virtues of simplicity, self-sufficiency, and man's relationship to nature. In Walden x 40, Robert B. Ray adopts Thoreau's compositional method to explore some of the questions posed in Walden. Drawing connections to the works of poets and philosophers from Wordsworth to Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Breton, Ray derives the inspiration for his 40 brief essays by exploring the pages of Walden in the same way Thoreau explored his own life-deliberately.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253005519
• Artikelnr.: 55131214

Autorenporträt

Peg Brand Weiser is Adjunct Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Arizona and Emerita Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis. She is editor of  Beauty Matters and (with Carolyn Korsmeyer) Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics, and author of numerous essays in feminist aesthetics dealing with women's art, creativity, beauty standards and sports. She served as the first Chair of the Feminist Caucus Committee of the American Society for Aesthetics and is the former First Lady of Indiana University (1994-2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Carolyn Korsmeyer
Introduction: Peg Zeglin Brand
Part I. Revising the Concept of Beauty: Laying the Groundwork
1. Arthur Danto and the Problem of Beauty Noël Carroll
2. Savages, Wild Men, Monstrous Races: The Social Construction of Race in
the Early Modern Era Gregory Velazco y Trianosky
3. Beauty's Relational Labor Monique Roelofs
4. Queer Beauty: Winckelmann and Kant on the Vicissitudes of the Ideal
Whitney Davis
5. Worldwide Women Eleanor Heartney
Part II. Standards of Beauty
6. Jenny Saville Remakes the Female Nude-Feminist Reflections on the State
of the Art
Diana Tietjens Meyers
7. Indigenous Beauty Phoebe M. Farris
8. Is Medical Aesthetics Really Medical? Mary Devereaux
9. The Bronze Age Revisited: The Aesthetics of Sun Tanning Jo Ellen Jacobs
10. ¿Tienes Culo? How to Look at Vida Guerra Karina Céspedes and Paul C.
Taylor
11. Beauty between Disability and Gender: Frida Kahlo in Paper Dolls Fedwa
Malti-Douglas
Part III. The Body in Performance
12. Beauty, Youth, and the Balinese Legong Dance Stephen Davies
13. Bollywood and the Feminine: Hinduism and Images of Womanhood Jane Duran
14. Seductive Shift: A Review of "The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha"
Valerie Sullivan Fuchs
15. Feminist Art, Content and Beauty Keith Lehrer
16. ORLAN Revisited: Disembodied Virtual Hybrid Beauty Peg Zeglin Brand
Part IV. Beauty and the State
17. Beauty Wars: The Struggle over Female Modesty in the Contemporary
Middle East and North Africa Allen Douglas and Fedwa Malti-Douglas
18. Orientalism Inside/Out: The Art of Soody Sharifi Cynthia Freeland
19. Beauty and the State: Female Bodies as State Apparatus and Recent
Beauty Discourses in China Eva Kit Wah Man
20. Gendered Bodies in Contemporary Chinese Art Mary Wiseman
Contributors
Index