The New Aestheticism [Paperback]

The interest in aesthetics in Philosophy, Literary and Cultural Studies is growing rapidly. 'The new aestheticism' contains exemplary essays by key practitioners in these fields which demonstrate the importance of this area of enquiry.

List of Contributors

The new aestheticism: An introduction - John J. Joughin and Simon Malpas

PART ONE: Positions

1. Aesthetic education and the demise of experience - Thomas Docherty

2. Towards a contemporary aesthetic - Jonathan Dollimore

3. Mimesis in black and white: Feminist aesthetics, negativity and semblance - Ewa Plonowska Ziarek

4. What comes after art - Andrew Bowie

5. Touching art: Aesthetics, fragmentation and community - Simon Malpas

PART TWO: READINGS

6. The Alexandrian aesthetic - Howard Caygill

7. Defending poetry, or is there an early modern aesthetic? - Mark Robson

8. Shakespeare's genius: 'Hamlet', adaptation and the work of following - John J. Joughin

9. Critical knowledge, scientific knowledge and the truth of literature - Robert Eaglestone

10. Melancholy as form: Towards an archaeology of modernism - Jay Bernstein

11. Kant and the ends of criticism - Gary Banham

12. Including transformation: Notes on the art of the contemporary - Andrew Benjamin

13. Aesthetics and politics: Between Adorno and Heidegger - Joanna Hodge

John J. Joughin is Reader in English at the University of Central Lancashire

Simon Malpas is Lecturer in English at the Manchester Metropolitan University