Aesthetic Theory Across the Disciplines

✍ Scribed by Max Ryynänen, Zoltan Somhegyi

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 219
• Series: Global Aesthetic Research
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

What 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, the authors 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 work on the border of aesthetics and at least one other academic field. Through their regular scholarly activities, the contributors constantly benefit from cross- and interdisciplinary practice, and this makes them ideal interpreters of these methodological questions.

Contributors include: Mami Aota, Karl Axelsson, Paul Duncum, Lisa Giombini, Oiva Kuisma, Jacob Lund, Tyrus Miller, Max Ryynänen, Mateusz Salwa, Zoltán Somhegyi, Wendy Steiner, and Joseph Tanke.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
Notes
Chapter 1: Aesthetics and Evolutionary Theory
Notes
Chapter 2: Aesthetics and Environmental Humanities: The Fieldwork on Ourselves
What is Environmental Humanities?
Environmental Aesthetics as a ‘Small Environmental Humanities’
Environmental Aesthetics in Environmental Humanities
Experiencing Ourselves
Berleant’s Aesthetics of Engagement
Descriptive Aesthetics
The Fieldwork on Ourselves
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 3: Aesthetics and Architecture
Architecture as Aesthetic Metaphor
Architecture in the System of the Arts
Architecture and Philosophical Aesthetics
Notes
Chapter 4: Aesthetics and Urban Studies
Aesthetics and the City
Urban Studies as Implicit Aesthetics
Urban Aesthetics
Conclusions
Notes
Chapter 5: Aesthetics and Politics
Historical Continuities
Aristotle on Poetry and Politics
Shaftesbury on the Intrinsic Value of Nature and Art
Ideological Distortions: Fascism and Nazism
Contemporary Ethno-Nationalism
Notes
Chapter 6: Aesthetics and Philosophy: From Baumgarten to Nietzsche
Alexander Baumgarten (1714–1762) and the Science of Aesthetics
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) and Disinterested Taste
Friedrich Schiller (1788–1805) and the Politics of Aesthetics
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) and the Aesthetic Foundation of Ethics
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) and the Aesthetic Justification of Existence
Notes
Chapter 7: Aesthetics and the Classical Tradition: Remarks on Baumgarten and Batteux
The Classical Roots of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten’s Project of Aesthetics
Charles Batteux and the Notion of the Fine Art
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 8: Aesthetics and Cultural Studies: On the Relationship between a Small Discipline and Her Bully Big Brother
The Clash
Where to Head Next – And the Future
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 9: Aesthetics and Art History
Notes
Chapter 10: An Exercise in Metamorphosis: Aesthetics of the Curatorial
The Curatorial
Generation of Publicness
The Act of Exhibition
Reflexive Transformation
Notes
Chapter 11: Aesthetics and Art Education
Context
Kant and the Aesthetic Movement of the 1970s
Developmental Ability of Students
Discipline-Based Art Education
Aesthetics in Transition
Visual Culture and Aesthesis
Aesthetics as Seduction
Aesthetics and Aesthesis
Notes
Chapter 12: Aesthetics and Musicology
Music and Philosophy
The Fear of Aesthetics
Distinct Methods
A Shared Goal
Conclusions
Notes
Index
About the Contributors