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Author Menke, Christoph, 1958- author.

Title Force : a fundamental concept of aesthetic anthropology / Christoph Menke ; translated by Gerrit Jackson
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 111 pages)
Contents Sensibility: the indeterminacy of the imagination -- Praxis: the practice of the subject -- Play: the operation of force -- Aestheticization: the transformation of praxis -- Aesthetics: philosophy's contention -- Ethics: the freedom of self-creation
Summary This text re-conceives modern aesthetics by reconstructing its genesis in the 18th century, between Baumgarten's 'Aesthetics' and Kant's 'Critique of Judgment'. Force demonstrates that aesthetics, and hence modern philosophy, began twice
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-111)
Notes Print version record
Subject Aesthetics, Modern -- 18th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Aesthetics, Modern
Form Electronic book
Author Jackson, Gerrit, translator.
ISBN 9780823250691
0823250695
9780823250424
0823250423