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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462098103321

Autore

Menke Christoph <1958->

Titolo

Force [[electronic resource] ] : a fundamental concept of aesthetic anthropology / / Christoph Menke ; translated by Gerrit Jackson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8232-4973-5

0-8232-5069-5

0-8232-5042-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (125 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JacksonGerrit

Disciplina

111/.85

Soggetti

Aesthetics, Modern - 18th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Sensibility: the indeterminacy of the imagination -- Praxis: the practice of the subject -- Play: the operation of force -- Aestheticization: the transformation of praxis -- Aesthetics: philosophy's contention -- Ethics: the freedom of self-creation.

Sommario/riassunto

This text re-conceives modern aesthetics by reconstructing its genesis in the 18th century, between Baumgarten's 'Aesthetics' and Kant's 'Critique of Judgment'. Force demonstrates that aesthetics, and hence modern philosophy, began twice.