The Genealogy of Aesthetics
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- Author: Ekbert Faas, York University, Toronto
- Date Published: September 2002
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Is it body or spirit that makes us appreciate beauty and create art? The distinguished Canadian critic Ekbert Faas argues that, with occasional exceptions like Montaigne and Mandeville, the mainstream of western thinking about beauty from Plato onwards has greatly overemphasized the spirit. This study redresses this imbalance, and offers a radical re-reading of thinkers like Plato, Augustine, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger and Derrida. Professor Faas attacks both the traditional and postmodern consensus, and offers a new pro-sensualist aesthetics, heavily influenced by Nietzsche, that draws on contemporary cognitive science.
Read more- A profound polemic on a major subject, by a distinguished cultural critic
- Will annoy both traditionalist and postmodern thinkers in equal measure
- Strong linkages with cognitive science outside orthodox humanist channels
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- Date Published: September 2002
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521811828
- length: 454 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 160 x 34 mm
- weight: 0.861kg
- contains: 14 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Plato's transvaluations of aesthetic values
2. Proto-Nietzschean opponents to Plato
3. Late Antiquity, Plotinus, and Augustine
4. Augustine's Platonopolis
5. The Middle Ages
6. The Renaissance
7. The Renaissance Academy, Ficino, Montaigne, and Shakespeare
8. Hobbes and Shaftesbury
9. Mandeville, Burke, Hume, and E. Darwin
10. Kant's ethicoteleological aesthetics
11. Kant's midlife conversion
12. Hegel, Feuerbach, and Marx
13. Marx's Nietzschean moment
14. Heidegger's 'destruction' of traditional aesthetics
15. Heidegger contra Nietzsche
16. Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Derrida
17. Différance, Freud, Nietzsche, and Artaud
18. Derrida's mega-transcendentalist Mimesis
19. Postmodern or Pre-Nietszschean? Derrida, Lyotard, and de Man
20. The Postmodern revival of the aesthetic ideal
Afterword.
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