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The interest in aesthetics in Philosophy, Literary and Cultural Studies is growing rapidly. 'The new aestheticism' contains exemplary essays by key practitioners in these fields which demonstrate the importance of this area of enquiry.An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
John J. Joughin is Reader in English at the University of Central Lancashire. Simon Malpas is Lecturer in English at the Manchester Metropolitan University
List of ContributorsThe new aestheticism: An introduction - John J. Joughin and Simon MalpasPART ONE: Positions1. Aesthetic education and the demise of experience - Thomas Docherty2. Towards a contemporary aesthetic - Jonathan Dollimore3. Mimesis in black and white: Feminist aesthetics, negativity and semblance - Ewa Plonowska Ziarek4. What comes after art - Andrew Bowie5. Touching art: Aesthetics, fragmentation and community - Simon MalpasPART TWO: READINGS6. The Alexandrian aesthetic - Howard Caygill7. Defending poetry, or is there an early modern aesthetic? - Mark Robson8. Shakespeare's genius: 'Hamlet', adaptation and the work of following - John J. Joughin9. Critical knowledge, scientific knowledge and the truth of literature - Robert Eaglestone10. Melancholy as form: Towards an archaeology of modernism - Jay Bernstein11. Kant and the ends of criticism - Gary Banham12. Including transformation: Notes on the art of the contemporary - Andrew Benjamin13. Aesthetics and politics: Between Adorno and Heidegger - Joanna Hodge