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The Aesthetic Turn in Philosophy, Art and Society: Genealogy of a Profound Transformation

The Aesthetic Turn in Philosophy, Art and Society: Genealogy of a Profound Transformation

Raffnsøe, Sverre

Hardcover

Philosophy

PREORDER - Expected ship date July 8, 2027

ISBN10: 1350270024
ISBN13: 9781350270022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jul 8 2027
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Aestheticizing Society makes a significant and original contribution to understanding the contemporary aesthetic turn. By examining its constituent layers through crucial stages in the history of philosophical aesthetics, Sverre Raffns e situates sensory experience and affective expression as ubiquitously present and decisive.

Moving through previous aesthetic turns including classical prescriptive poetics via Plato, Boileau, and Baumgarten, Raffns e highlights the beginnings of modern aesthetics in the relationship between aesthetic experience and expression, and traverses the golden age of aesthetics through Kant, Schiller, and Hegel. The notion of an absolute and autonomous art is explored alongside the development of aesthetic experience that invites the subject to transgress and renegotiate given reality.

What is unique about the current aesthetic moment, Raffns e argues, is that human beings now configure their own nature as they relate to an aestheticized society, revealing striking implications of the present aesthetic turn for self-comprehension, the formation of self-revelation and self-transformation.

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