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基本説明
These essays aim to resolve some of the issues of the so-called "culture wars" by bridging the gap that has existed for two decades between scholars and critics who generally hold conflicting views of the purposes of art and criticism.
Full Description
The essays collected in this volume examine the multidisciplinary and multicultural nature of the subject of aesthetics. The contributors, who include Amelia Jones, Satya Mohanty, Donald E. Pease, and John Carlos Rowe, address the vexed relation of the arts and criticism to contemporary social, political, and cultural issues of ethnicity, race, class, and gender in the United States today. These essays aim to resolve some of the issues of the so-called "culture wars" by bridging the gap that has existed for two decades between scholars and critics who generally hold conflicting views of the purposes of art and criticism. Accordingly, this volume provides a serious assessment of aesthetic theory and practices within the arts and letters of our multicultural society.
Contents
Contributors
Emory Elliott: Introduction: Cultural Diversity and the Problem of Aesthetics
PART I. CHALLENGES TO AN AESTHETICS OF DIVERSITY
Satya P. Mohanty: Can Our Values Be Objective? On Ethics, Aesthetics, and Progressive Politics
Giles Gunn: The Pragmatics of the Aesthetic
Winfried Fluck: Aesthetics and Cultural Studies
John Carlos Rowe: The Resistance to Cultural Studies
PART II. REDEFINING CATEGORIES OF VALUE AND DIFFERENCE
Shelley Fisher Fishkin: Desegregating American Literary Studies
Robyn Wiegman: Difference and Disciplinarity
Donald E. Pease: Doing Justice to C.L.R. James's Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways
Johnella E. Butler: Mumbo Jumbo, Theory, and the Aesthetics of Wholeness
PART III. AESTHETIC JUDGMENT AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE
Paul Lauter: Aesthetics Again? The Pleasures and the Dangers
Amelia Jones: "Every man knows where and how beauty gives him pleasure": Beauty Discourse and the Logic of Aesthetics
Kathleen McHugh: The Aesthetics of Wounding: Trauma, Self-Representation, and the Critical Voice
Chon A. Noriega: Beautiful Identities: When History Turns State's Evidence
Heinz Ickstadt: Toward a Pluralist Aesthetics
Louis Freitas Caton: Afterword
Index