Berleant, Arnold, 1932-

Re-thinking aesthetics : rogue essays on aesthetics and the arts / Arnold Berleant. - Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2004. - ix, 185 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes biographical references and index.

Introduction : art and the future of aesthetics -- Re-thinking aesthetics -- The historicity of aesthetics -- Beyond disinterestedness -- Aesthetics and the contemporary arts -- The sensuous and the sensual in aesthetics -- Aesthetic embodiment -- Intuition in art or pygmalion revisited -- Art without object -- The art of the unseen -- Death in image, word, and idea -- Brancusi and the phenomenology of sculptural space -- The verbal presence : an aesthetics of literary performance -- The intuitive impulse in literary performance -- A phenomenology of musical performance.

0754650138 (hardback : alk. paper)


Aesthetics.
Arts--Philosophy.

BH39 / .B3949 2004

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