By printing the title "Professor of Aesthetics" on his visiting cards, Oscar Wilde announced yet another transformation-and perhaps the most significant of his career, proclaiming his belief that he c
The contemporary moment has been described in terms of both a “narrative” and a “performative turn,” but the overlap between these two has largely escaped attention. This curious gap is explained by t
Japan’s classical tradition underpinned almost every area of cultural production throughout the early modern or Edo period (1615–1868). This book offers the first in-depth account of three aesthetic s
The Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics aims to provide teachers and students with a new perspective on the history and present of aesthetic theory. It contains a comprehensive survey of the field of
Hendrix (architectural design, art and architectural history, Roger Williams U.) describes how the aesthetics of Plato led to that of Plotinus, and from Plotinus to Schelling and Hegel in the philosop
This 2002 volume brings together major works by German thinkers, writing just prior to and after Kant, who were enormously influential in this crucial period of aesthetics. These texts include the first translation into English of Schiller's Kallias Letters and Moritz's On the Artistic Imitation of the Beautiful, together with translations of some of Hölderlin's most important theoretical writings and works by Hamann, Lessing, Novalis and Schlegel. In a philosophical introduction J. M. Bernstein traces the development of aesthetics from its still rationalist and mimetic construction in Lessing, through the optimistic construal of art and/or beauty as the appearance of human freedom in the work of Schiller, to Hölderlin's darker vision of art as the memory of a lost unity, and the variations of that theme - of an impossible striving after the lost ideal - which are found in the work of Schlegel and Novalis.
Through a series of detailed film case histories ranging from The Great Dictator to Hiroshima mon amour to The Lives of Others, The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film: Radical Projection explores the gene
Guiding readers through major problems, issues and debates in aesthetics, this is a bias-free introduction for students studying the philosophy of art for the first time. Each chapter of the book begi
European and US scholars of Arabic literature examine change in Arab societies that resulted in a breach between the literary styles before the 1960s and experimental styles emerging thereafter in Ara
The 15 papers in this second volume of proceedings turn from history of modern Arabic literature to the current scene, emphasizing facets that may portend future currents. Among the topics are Iraqi f
