Aesthetic Theory Across the Disciplines

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
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