1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452039503321

Autore

Mahoney Kathleen A

Titolo

Catholic higher education in Protestant America [[electronic resource] ] : the Jesuits and Harvard in the age of the university / / Kathleen A. Mahoney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-8018-8135-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (359 p.)

Disciplina

378/.0088/22

Soggetti

Church and college - United States - History

Catholics - Education (Higher) - United States - History

Catholic universities and colleges - United States

Protestant churches - United States - Relations - Catholic Church - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-336) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Between Protestants and Catholics -- The descendants of Luther and the sons of Loyola -- Time, the Harvard Law School controversy and the modern imperative -- Among Catholics -- Persons, the bonds of religion and the claims of class -- Place, Americanism and the higher education of Catholics -- Among Jesuits -- Novus ordo academicus and the travails of adapting.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959209503321

Autore

Crowther Paul

Titolo

Critical aesthetics and postmodernism / / Paul Crowther

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993

ISBN

0-19-159726-0

0-19-151957-X

9786612051937

1-282-05193-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Disciplina

111/.85

Soggetti

Postmodernism

Aesthetics

Aesthetics, Modern - 20th century

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Experience and Mechanical Reproduction -- PART ONE -- 1. From Différance to Embodiment: Subjectivity and Symbolic Formations -- 2. Merleau-Ponty: Perception into Art -- 3. Beyond Formalism: Kant's Theory of Art -- 4. The Producer as Artist -- 5. Violence in Painting -- PART TWO -- 6. The Existential Sublime: From Burke's Aesthetics to the Socio-Political -- 7. Moral Insight and Aesthetic Experience: Kant's Theory of the Sublime -- 8. The Kantian Sublime, the Postmodern, and the Avant-Garde -- 9. Sublimity and Postmodern Culture: Lyotard's Les Immatériaux -- PART THREE -- 10. Postmodernism in the Visual Arts: A Question of Ends -- 11. Creativity, Contemporary Art, and Critical Aesthetics.

Sommario/riassunto

Kant's theory of the sublime has become one of the most keenly studied elements in both his own aesthetics and aesthetic theory in general. This book offers a sustained analysis of Kant's theory of the sublime as found throughout his critical philosophy.