| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Aesthetics and modernity :/ by Agnes Heller ; edited by John Rundell. |
| Reminder of title: |
essays / |
| Author: |
Heller, Agnes. |
| other author: |
Rundell, John F. |
| Published: |
Lanham :Lexington Books, : c2011., |
| Description: |
viii, 233 p. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Agnes Heller: modernity, aesthetics and the human condition, an interpretative essay / John Rundell -- What went wrong with the concept of the beautiful? -- Autonomy of art or the dignity of the artwork -- The role of emotions in the reception of artworks -- Joke culture and transformations of the public sphere -- The contemporary historical novel -- The metaphysics of embodiment in the western tradition -- European master-narratives about freedom -- The three logics of modernity and the double bind of the modern imagination -- The absolute stranger: shakespeare and the drama of failed assimilation -- The gods of greece: germans and greeks -- Self representation and the representation of the other -- Where are we at home?. |
| Subject: |
Aesthetics. - |
| ISBN: |
9780739141311 (hbk.) : |