Aesthetics and modernity
Subtitle: essays
By: by Agnes Heller ; edited by John Rundell
Contributors: Rundell, John F.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780739141311; 9780739141328; 9780739141335
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Agnes Heller: modernity, aesthetics and the human condition, an interpretative essay / John Rundell; title: What went wrong with the concept of the beautiful?; title: Autonomy of art or the dignity of the artwork; title: The role of emotions in the reception of artworks; title: Joke culture and transformations of the public sphere; title: The contemporary historical novel; title: The metaphysics of embodiment in the western tradition; title: European master-narratives about freedom; title: The three logics of modernity and the double bind of the modern imagination; title: The absolute stranger: shakespeare and the drama of failed assimilation; title: The gods of greece: germans and greeks; title: Self representation and the representation of the other; title: Where are we at home?.