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Aesthetics and Modernity
Essays by Agnes Heller
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2010
Summary
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.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4132-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4133-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
233
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
1 Agnes Heller No access Pages 1 - 28
2 What Went Wrong With the Concept of the Beautiful? No access Pages 29 - 46
3 Autonomy of Art or the Dignity of the Artwork No access Pages 47 - 64
4 The Role of Emotions in the Reception of Artworks No access Pages 65 - 78
5 Joke Culture and Transformations of the Public Sphere No access Pages 79 - 92
6 The Contemporary Historical Novel No access Pages 93 - 104
7 The Metaphysics of Embodiment in the Western Tradition No access Pages 105 - 128
8 European Master Narratives about Freedom No access Pages 129 - 140
9 The Three Logics of Modernity and the Double Bind of the Modern Imagination No access Pages 141 - 158
10 The Absolute Stranger No access Pages 159 - 176
11 The Gods of Greece No access Pages 177 - 188
12 Self-Representation and the Representation of the Other No access Pages 189 - 202
13 Where Are We at Home? No access Pages 203 - 222
Index No access Pages 223 - 232
About the Author and Editor No access Pages 233 - 233
