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.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Aesthetics, Modern
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Jackson, Gerrit, translator.
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ISBN |
9780823250691 |
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0823250695 |
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9780823250424 |
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0823250423 |
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