
Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 31. January 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-19-514633-2 (ISBN)
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.
Reviews / Votes
The contributors to this volume all make separate, and mostly compelling, cases for the revitalization of the aesthetic in textual and extra-textual cultural productions.... Valuable for detailing aesthetics' continued relevance and even necessity for contemporary cultural study. * Postmodern Culture * This collection is an important project, the topics addressed by the contributors timely and crucial. Can humanities professors maintain aesthetic values without slipping into elitism? Can they execute political critique without turning ham-fisted and illiberal? Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age is an important step in establishing a middle way, drawing the humanities out of the old Culture Wars contraries and into a more productive, less fractious mode of teaching and research. * Mark Bauerlein, Emory University * Finally! A book that gets rid of the false opposition between aesthetics and multiculturalism. We live in an exciting time when a vibrant generation of artists and critics are not only championing the aesthetic but are also challenging conventional ideas about exactly what counts as the beautiful. Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age reminds us that poetics and politics often make the coziest of bedfellows. * Cathy N. Davidson, Duke University * The contributors to this volume all make separate, and mostly compelling, cases for the revitalization of the aesthetic in textual and extra-textual cultural productions.... Valuable for detailing aesthetics' continued relevance and even necessity for contemporary cultural study. * Postmodern Culture * This collection is an important project, the topics addressed by the contributors timely and crucial. Can humanities professors maintain aesthetic values without slipping into elitism? Can they execute political critique without turning ham-fisted and illiberal? Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age is an important step in establishing a middle way, drawing the humanities out of the old Culture Wars contraries and into a more productive, less fractious mode of teaching and research. * Mark Bauerlein, Emory University *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
21 Fotos bzw. Rasterbilder
21 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
483 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-514633-2 (9780195146332)
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Persons
Emory Elliott is University Professor at the University of California, Riverside. Louis Freitas Caton is Professor of English at Auburn University. Jeffrey Rhyne is a graduate fellow in English at the University of California, Riverside.
Editor
Distinguished Professor of EnglishDistinguished Professor of English, University of California, Riverside
Assistant Professor of EnglishAssistant Professor of English, Westfield State College
Graduate FellowGraduate Fellow, University of California, Riverside
Content
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
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