Beyond Aesthetics and Politics : Philosophical and Axiological Studies on the Avant-Garde, Pragmatism, and Postmodernism.

Beyond Aesthetics and Politics : Philosophical and Axiological Studies on the Avant-Garde, Pragmatism, and Postmodernism.

The book presents five philosophical and axiological studies devoted to the relationship between aesthetics and politics . It shows this relationship throughout the works of some avant-gardists, pragmatists, and postmodernists. It is also a voice in the discussion about the meaning of the fine arts...

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Main Author: Skowronski, Krzysztof Piotr.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2013.

Series: Value Inquiry Book Series 264.
Rodopi Religion, Theology and Philosophy Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2014, ISBN: 9789004357938.

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Aesthetics.

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Call Number: BH201 .S384 2013

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • SANTAYANA AND THE AVANT-GARDE: VISUAL ARTS IN THE CONTEXT OF DEMOCRACY, NORMS, LIBERTY, AND SOCIAL PROGRESS
  • STYLE AS THE TOOL OF TYRANNY IN GOMBROWICZ: AN AVANT-GARDIST AS A FORERUNNER OF POSTMODERNISM
  • FACIAL IMAGES AS A WAY FOR THE ARTICULATION OF VALUES IN THE AVANT-GARDE'S AESTHETICS OF DEFORMATION. ANOTHER PRELUDE TO POSTMODERNISM
  • THE INTERRELATION BETWEEN POLITICS AND AESTHETICS IN CLASSSIC AMERICAN PRAGMATISM: DEMOCRACY AND AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE IN WILLIAM JAMES
  • AESTHETIC PERSUASION AND POLITICAL COMPULSION: LITERARY PHILOSOPHY IN LIGHT OF RICHARD RORTY'S IDEAS OF DEMOCRATIC LIBERALISM AND CULTURAL POLITICS
  • FINAL REMARKS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  • INDEX
  • VALUE INQUIRY BOOK SERIES.