Description
Book SynopsisWhat is aesthetics? How is it related to other disciplines? The chapters of this book examine the history, theoretical conditions and connection points between aesthetics and other disciplines. At the same time we are also interested in practical clashes of methodology and agenda – especially when it is not merely about the securing of the position of one or the other discipline, but is used, in a dialogical manner, as the form of understanding better the nature of both as well as the benefits of their collaboration. The authors all work on the edge of aesthetics and at least one other academic field, hence through their regular scholarly activities they constantly benefit from their cross- and interdisciplinary practice, and this makes them ideal interpreters of these methodological questions. This book is also an alternative introduction to aesthetics for the interested who already has some basic knowledge – but through its companions.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: An Introduction to Aesthetics and Its Companions
Zoltán Somhegyi and Max Ryynänen:
Chapter 1. Aesthetics and Evolutionary Theory
Wendy Steiner
Chapter 2. Aesthetics and Environmental Humanities—The Fieldwork on Ourselves
Mami Aota
Chapter 3. Aesthetics and Architecture
Tyrus Miller
Chapter 4. Aesthetics and Urban Studies
Mateusz Salwa
Chapter 5. Aesthetics and Politics
Karl Axelsson
Chapter 6. Aesthetics and Philosophy: From Baumgarten to Nietzsche
Joseph Tanke
Chapter 7. Aesthetics and the Classical Tradition: Remarks on Baumgarten and Batteux
Oiva Kuisma
Chapter 8. Aesthetics and Cultural Studies: On the Relationship Between a Small Discipline and her Bully Big Brother
Max Ryynänen
Chapter 9. Aesthetics and Art History
Zoltán Somhegyi
Chapter 10. An Exercise in Metamorphosis: Aesthetics of the Curatorial
Jacob Lund
Chapter 11. Aesthetics and Art Education
Paul Duncum
Chapter 12. Aesthetics and Musicology
Lisa Giombini
Index
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