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Overview"This book reconceives modern aesthetics by reconstructing its genesis in the 18th century, between Baumgarten's Aesthetics and Kant's Critique of Judgment. Force demonstrates that aesthetics, and hence modern philosophy, began twice. On the one hand, Baumgarten's Aesthetics is organized around the new concept of the ""subject"": as a totality of faculties; an agent defined by capabilities; one who is able. Yet an aesthetics in the Baumgartian manner, as the theory of the sensible faculties of the subject, at once faces a different aesthetics: the aesthetics of force. The latter conceives the aesthetic not as sensible cognition but as a play of expression--propelled by a force that, rather than being exercised like a faculty, does not recognize or represent anything because it is obscure and unconscious: the force of what in humanity is distinct from the subject. The aesthetics of force is thus a thinking of the nature of man: of aesthetic nature as distinct from the culture acquired by practice. It founds an anthropology of difference: between force and faculty, human and subject." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor of Philosophy Christoph Menke (Goethe-University Frankfurt-Am-Main) , Translator Gerrit JacksonPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press ISBN: 9780823250691ISBN 10: 0823250695 Publication Date: 01 September 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Undefined Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsContinental philosophers working in the area of aesthetics will find this book to be of great interest. Menke's study is brief, but compelling and highly learned-- a welcome addition to the scholarship. . recommended. -Choice Menke forcefully makes the point that with the emergence of aesthetics in the eighteenth century, philosophy, and its understanding of itself, underwent a radical change. -Rodolphe Gasch , University of Buffalo, SUNY Force is an outstanding study of the philosophical, ethical and political underpinnings of modern aesthetics and an important and original contribution to contemporary debates about the fate of modernity, philosophy, and the arts. -Paola Marrati, The Johns Hopkins University Author InformationChristoph Menke is Professor of Philosophy at the Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt am Main. Among his previous appointments has been a stint at the New School. Gerrit Jackson studied literature, philosophy, and art history in Berlin and New York. He is a translator and lives in Berlin. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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