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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821113403321

Autore

Baofu Peter

Titolo

The future of aesthetic experience : conceiving a better way to understand beauty, ugliness, and the rest / / Peter Baofu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle : , : Cambridge Scholars Pub., , 2007

ISBN

1-282-19123-3

9786612191237

1-4438-0749-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 238 pages)

Disciplina

111/.85

Soggetti

Aesthetics

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 (p. [203]-211) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Nature -- pt. 3. The mind -- pt. 4. Culture -- pt. 5. Society -- pt. 6. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Contrary to the conventional wisdom held by many, Dr. Peter Baofu argues that the current popularity of postmodernism in the humanities (especially though not exclusively in relation to the arts) will not last, as it constitutes an aesthetic fad in this day and age of postmodernity. This thesis has important implications for understanding beauty, ugliness, and other aesthetic categories, be the era in the past, present, or future, to the extent that the current theoretical debate on aest...