German Aesthetics Fundamental Concepts from Baumgarten to Adorno

by Mininger, J. D.; Peck, Jason Michael

• ISBN13: 9781501321474
• ISBN10: 1501321471
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-09-22
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

German Aesthetics provides English-speaking audiences with accessible explanations of fundamental concepts from the German tradition of philosophical aesthetics. Organized with the understanding that aesthetic concepts are often highly contested intellectual territory, and that the usage and meanings of terms often shift within historical, cultural, and political debates, this volume brings together scholars of German literature, philosophy, film studies, musicology, and history to provide informative and creative interpretations of German aesthetics that will be useful to students and scholars alike.

Author Biography

J.D. Mininger is Associate Professor of Social and Political Theory at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. He is co-editor, with Leonidas Donskis, of Politics Otherwise: Shakespeare as Social and Political Critique (2012).

Jason Michael Peck is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Rochester, USA. He is the author of The Poetics of Debt: Political Theologies from The Merchant of Venice to the Occupy Movement (forthcoming).

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION, J.D. Mininger and Jason Michael Peck
IMAGINATION, Jochen Schulte-Sasse (posthumous publication), Emeritus at University of Minnesota, USA
JUDGMENT, Vivasvan Soni, Northwestern University, USA
BEAUTY, Paul Guyer, Brown University, USA
SUBLIME, David Martyn, Macalester College, USA
MIMESIS, Christian Sieg, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Germany
FEELING: ON WERTHER, Stanley Corngold, Emeritus at Princeton University, USA
IRONY, Michel Chaouli, Indiana University, USA
LISTENING, Mirko M. Hall, Converse College, USA
ETHICS, Jason Michael Peck, University of Rochester, USA
ABSOLUTE MUSIC, Sanna Pederson, University of Oklahoma, USA
THE END OF ART, Eva Geulen, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany
ALLEGORY, J.D. Mininger, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
VALUE, A. Kiarina Kordela, Macalester College, USA
GOD IS DEAD, Silke-Maria Weineck, University of Michigan, USA
TRAGEDY / TRAUERSPIEL, Ian Balfour, York University, Canada
SAYING / SHOWING, Fabian Goppelsröder, Universität Potsdam, Germany
NOTHINGNESS, Kenneth Haynes, Brown University, USA
MESSIANISM, Peter Fenves, Northwestern University, USA
MEDIATION / MEDIUM, James A. Steintrager, University of California, Irvine, USA and Rey Chow, Duke University, USA
TRUTH, Kai Hammermeister, The Ohio State University, USA
UNCANNY, Thomas Pepper, University of Minnesota, USA
MOOD / ATTUNEMENT, Darío González, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
FILM, Johannes von Moltke, University of Michigan, USA
MONTAGE / COLLAGE, Patrizia McBride, Cornell University, USA
NORMALITY, Jürgen Link, Emeritus at Universität Dortmund, Germany
UGLY, Richard Leppert, University of Minnesota, USA
SHUDDER, Karyn Ball, University of Alberta, Canada
COMMITTED ART, Andrew Knighton , California State University at Los Angeles, USA