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After Aesthetics
On the 30th anniversary of its foundation (1980-2010), the International
Centre for the Study of Aesthetics promoted a survey
among some of its most prominent members and supporters on
the state of aesthetics at the present time.
The volume After Aesthetics, edited by Luigi Russo, is devoted
to this collective reflection and includes the following essays:
Hans-Dieter Bahr’s “Beauty: Reflections on Its Mode of Being,”
Paolo D’Angelo’s “Three Ways (Plus One) of Understanding Aesthetics,”
Arthur C. Danto’s “Kalliphobia in Contemporary Art,”
Fabrizio Desideri’s “No Aesthetics without Meta-Aesthetics,”
Giuseppe Di Giacomo’s “Rethinking the Aura in the Modern
Context,” Roberto Diodato’s “The Future Perfect of Aesthetics,”
Maurizio Ferraris’s “Aesthetics as Aisthesis,” Elio Franzini’s
“The World of Life and the Symbols of the Modern: A Prospect
for Aesthetics,” Tonino Griffero’s “From the Beautiful to the
Atmospheric: Between Aesthetics and Atmospherology,” José
Jiménez’s “The Aesthetic Image,” Jerrold Levinson’s “Adieu a
l’esthéticien?” Giovanni Matteucci’s “Creativity and Aesthetic
Knowledge,” Pietro Montani’s “Aesthetic Differentiation and the
World of Art: A Critique of Two Influential Critiques,” Mario
Perniola’s “Elements of Non-European Cultural Aesthetics,” Baldine
Saint Girons’s “The Aesthetic Act as Link between Theory
and Practice,” Richard Shusterman’s “Terminal Narratives and
New Energies.”
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